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Post by librarylady on Oct 6, 2024 21:49:48 GMT
I have seen photos of huge amounts of fallen trees or lumber floating in a lake, or lying in the roads etc. Will that be burned, or just put in landfills?
It will take years and years to decompose.
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Post by nicolep on Oct 6, 2024 21:57:11 GMT
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Post by librarylady on Oct 6, 2024 22:00:08 GMT
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Post by used2scrap on Oct 6, 2024 22:09:24 GMT
The tree damage in our neighborhood after Florence was put into massive wood chippers, but I don’t know what happens with the “mulch” after that.
But the scale of damage then was nothing like what some of these areas devastated by Helene are facing. It’ll be years and years of recovery sadly.
On a bit of a kind of funny note, the tree down next to our neighbors house (missed the house by a foot) was so massive it tipped the crane truck nearly over when they tried to remove it. The workers took what they could, but when we moved out of the neighborhood 2 years later the massive tree stump was still just sitting at the curb.
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Post by iamkristinl16 on Oct 6, 2024 22:58:38 GMT
My stepbrother and his family were hit by the derecho that went through Iowa a few years ago. They had to cut down or lay to have someone cut down their trees and then the city came to pick them up but it took awhile. I think they made mulch out of them.
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Post by Deleted on Oct 6, 2024 23:03:51 GMT
Good question!
My mom and I were talking about all the debris left from destroyed roads, homes, and belongings. There is such a push to recycle so that we don't fill the landfills. We wonder where all of that will go? It's so much!
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Post by melanell on Oct 7, 2024 0:11:48 GMT
We had far less severe flooding here last summer, but it did deposit trees in yards, across roads, through bridge rails, etc., and they moved them all to one location and eventually mulched them.
Here, they use the mulch for walking paths in area parks and schools, landscaping of public areas, and any excess they donate to community gardens or local businesses.
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Post by Merge on Oct 7, 2024 0:17:59 GMT
In Houston, tree waste is recycled into wood chips, mulch, or wood pulp products. We have tree waste pickup every other month, but after a hurricane or tropical storm, they go into turbo mode with picking up and processing the fallen trees.
I imagine other areas are the same.
Treated lumber can't be recycled in the same way as clean tree waste. Not sure what happens with that.
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Post by breetheflea on Oct 7, 2024 0:28:28 GMT
There's a lake by Mt. St. Helen's that still has logs floating in it, and the volcano blew up in 1980. It takes wood a really long time to break down.
I hope they get the stuff from Helene and do something useful with it...
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Post by Scrapper100 on Oct 7, 2024 0:33:54 GMT
There's a lake by Mt. St. Helen's that still has logs floating in it, and the volcano blew up in 1980. It takes wood a really long time to break down. I hope they get the stuff from Helene and do something useful with it... Wow that’s amazing. |
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