The status of recovered wood in Croatia after the legisation

Almost one year after the legislation all the processes for the collecting, land-filling, recycling, using and reusing of wood waste in Croatia, including recovered wood, are at the beginning. During the 2005 Croatian forests produced about 2.6 million of m3 of biomass (bark, leaves, branches, stumps, firewood). In the same time the Croatian wood industry processed more than 1.7 million m3 of recovered wood and wood waste. On the one hand the processes of collecting, land-filling, recycling and reusing are encumbered by old-fashioned practice and by the capital deficiency. On the other hand it is obvious that the management of wood recovering has good prospects in the future, particularly with regard to the substantial huge amount of waste and recovered wood created per year. In this article the new experiences and consequences of the implementation of Croatian legislation and particularly new National Strategy of Waste Management (NSWM) are presented. The aim of this paper is to explain the impact of other important socio-economic factors on the whole process.