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Idea could turn wood debris into profit

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Sheldon Drummond with one of his high oxygen fans which burn woody debris at 1000 to 1100 degrees. “When you burn at that temperature, it destroys the dioxins and furans, which are the contaminants from burning,” he says. Photo / Black Balloon

A Gisborne man who has been in the forestry industry for decades has come up with an environmentally friendly solution to Tairāwhiti’s wood debris problem. 

But while Sheldon Drummond’s high oxygen fan machines have cleanly burned tens of thousands of cubic metres of debris in the wake of cyclones Hale and Gabrielle, he insists it is not the solution to what has become a devastating pro...

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Michael Sunderland
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24 May 2024
An excellent article. All of this done by a Gisborne Pioneer of Forestry. Well done Sheldon. All the best with your further efforts.

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