Wood recycling enterprise to get people back to work

A NEW enterprise has been launched to recycle unwanted wood.

Barnsley Wood Recycling, which is being assisted by the business support programme Enterprising Barnsley, will also help people get back into work. The project is being developed by Mark Powell who has been involved in setting up many social enterprises over the last 20 years, including Reclaim, a plastics recycling business in Sheffield.

Run as a social firm, Barnsley Wood Recycling will initially work with two people on probation and gradually increase its workforce as demand rises. The plan is to offer opportunities to people who may traditionally find it hard to enter, or get back into, the jobs market.

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Mr Powell said: “It is important to realise that our business is about people. Whether we work with wood or plastics or kryptonite it doesn’t matter; it’s all about work-based experience, employment opportunities and training.”

The wood will initially be turned into kindling for fires or cleaned up for re-sale. But the plan is to gradually increase the products available.

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