Germany, as a member of the European Union (EU), has harmonised
its wood waste management laws to those of the EU.
The goals in waste management have been defined as follows:
(i) to hamper and (ii) to reduce waste production, (iii) to reuse
or recycle and (iv) eliminate waste. In this regard, elimination
has to occur by thermal processing, since land burial is prohibited
(Peek, 2004).