There is no such thing as …

There is no such thing as "waste wood" in the forest. The wood residue from a fallen tree rots back into the forest floor to feed the soil so it can grow the next generation of trees. Leftover wood residue from a sawmill operation makes sense to use as fuel. The industrial land that the sawmill occupies does not need to be fertilized by woody material, and trucking it back to the land and spreading it about wastes energy. But calling wood pellets which consume wood from the land (trimmings from cut trees, and trees cut to feed the pellet industry) a "green" product is, in a world with collapsing ecosystems that need nutrients, nothing more than insanity made visible .