Recycling timber is a practice that was popularized in the early 1990s as issues such as deforestation and climate change prompted both timber suppliers and consumers to turn to a more sustainable timber source.

Timber is a renewable resource because of the regrowth of forests. Unlike other products, such as iron ore for steel, timber requires considerable less energy in the conversion of raw products to usable ones and in the re manufacture of material

Timber is a natural carbon store, which requires little energy in its production. Consumers, builders, and designers can dramatically reduce CO² emissions by using timber as an alternative to other products as using more timber saves more CO². More than 25 tonnes of CO² emissions are saved when wood products are used in the construction of a single story family home.