Startup Aims To Prevent More Fallen Trees From Heading To Landfill

The start-up Cambium has acquired the Forward Forestry network of arborists, in a bid to keep more fallen trees out of landfill and in the timber supply chain.

Cambium will add the network of more than 80 arborists to its sustainable supply chain software to help boost production of its sustainable wood brand, Carbon Smart Wood.

Typically, trees that fall due to decay, disaster, disease, or development are captured by arborists and sent to the landfill or turned into wood chips.

Forward Forestry has been an industry leader in educating arborists to sell fallen trees to sawmills where they can be turned into sustainable building materials to help contractors, furniture suppliers, and corporations meet demands to decarbonize the built environment.