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What are pellets made of ?All pellets are biomass materials, that is, products of commonly grown plants and trees. The most common residential pellets are made from sawdust and ground wood chips, which are waste materials from trees used to make furniture, lumber, and other products. Resins and binders (lignin) occurring naturally in the sawdust hold wood pellets together, so they usually contain no additives.
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An increase in the use of wood for biomass can also have a positive impact on biodiversity. Forests managed and harvested in a sustainable way will work to improve the level of light reaching the forest floor. This has the effect of increasing the diversity of shrubs and plants living beneath the trees.
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Wood Pellet Fuel is a fraction of cost of fossil fuel.
It's a renewable resource, right in our own backyard.
Wood pellet heating systems do not contribute to ozone levels and are considered to be in compliance with the Kyoto Accord stance on air emissions.
Wood pellets are easy to ship, delivered in compact bags to your home.
Wood Pellets are refined biomass which transports around the globe.
No tree is ever cut down for commercial pellet production. Instead, pellets are produced from forest industry waste wood. And the raw fibre supply here in Canada is solid and strong.
Automatic feed systems on the new state-of-the-art wood pellet home heating systems mean less work for the operator.
Wood pellet costs are stable, and not subject to the whims of foreign producers.
Wood pellets burn at a very high temperature, eliminating the waste product so often associated with wood heat. In fact, a 40-pound bag of pellets produces only three ounces of ash.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has endorsed wood pellet heat as one of the cleanest-burning, most renewable energy sources on Earth.
10 reasons from www.pellet.org
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