What term refers to turning waste timber into usable products?

• A. Gluing
• B. Compositing
• C. Wood recycling
• D. Densification

Answer: (C)

The main idea is wood recycling. It describes reclaiming waste timber and processing it into new materials or products, rather than discarding it. This covers a range of outcomes, from making particleboard or other engineered woods from wood scraps to converting chipped wood into mulch or biomass fuel. It captures the broad activity of turning waste into usable material, which is exactly what the question is asking for.

Gluing is just a bonding step used in various wood products; it doesn’t by itself describe handling waste timber. Compositing can refer to creating composite materials, but it isn’t the general term for converting waste wood into new products. Densification is about increasing wood density through compression, a specific treatment rather than the overarching process of repurposing waste wood.