Green waste recycler blooms in California - C&D News - Protect All Life Foundation Tree Recycling Yard - Brief Article

Recycling Today, Nov, 2002

The non-profit Protect All Life (PAL) Foundation Tree Recycling Yard now is serving the San Francisco Bay Area, taking delivery on whole trees and lumber for recycling.

Rather than make chips or mulch, PAL creates veneer, paneling, furniture, flooring, decking and material for wood sculptors from its accepted trees, trunks and timber sections.

The Tree Recycling Yard offers free pickup to remove felled and limbed trees in the San Francisco Bay Area. The PAL program has already recycled more than 6,000 tons of trees and other wood items.

"Urban trees are often overlooked as part of the forest," PAL executive director Marcus von Skepsgardh says, "but the forest is actually in our own back yard. If we recycle paper to save the trees, why not recycle the trees themselves. It only makes sense."