Wood quarantine to have limited impact on C&D recyclers.* In order to prevent the spread of a tree-killing pest, the U.S. Department of Agriculture has quarantined quar·an·tine n. 1. a. A period of time during which a vehicle, person, or material suspected of carrying a contagious disease is detained at a port of entry under enforced isolation to prevent disease from entering a country. some wood products in Illinois and Indiana. The ban restricts the movement of lumber, logs, wood chips and firewood across state lines unless the material has been treated to remove a pest called the emerald ash borer  This article or section may deal primarily with the U.S. and may not present a worldwide view. . Some fear the ban has the potential to be devastating dev·as·tate tr.v. dev·as·tat·ed, dev·as·tat·ing, dev·as·tates 1. To lay waste; destroy. 2. To overwhelm; confound; stun: was devastated by the rude remark. to those states' C&D recyclers as most of the wood market is for boiler fuel in Wisconsin and Michigan. However, C&D recyclers in Illinois say that it will not have much effect on them, despite the requirement that any wood that crosses state lines must have been treated to protect against the borer borer, name applied to various animals that are injurious because of their ability to penetrate plant or animal tissues. Among insects, some borers are beetles, e.g. , which kills any tree it infests and has been in a few spots in the two states. The reason for the lack of concern is that C&D wood is kiln dried and not from trees, and that any company making mulch mulch, any material, usually organic, that is spread on the ground to protect the soil and the roots of plants from the effects of soil crusting, erosion, or freezing; it is also used to retard the growth of weeds. that accepts trees is grinding the material down to a 1-inch minus size. More information on the ban is available at www.agr.state.il.us. |
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