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With these industries mapped and connected, with the Future Work
available stock being supplied in real time, Guideline 3 From the analysis performed, several perspectives have
deals with creating and maintaining the market so that WW been identified for future studies. The most relevant ones are
management is sustainable. summarised and highlighted below:

• Faced with environmental emergencies, the demand for
Guideline 3 information regarding the life cycle is growing exponentially.
The third guideline aims to encourage the creation of a market Consequently, increasing scalability in conducting LCA studies
for the use of WW as a raw material in new products. is essential for companies aiming to grow sustainably. This
Within this proposal, the strategies include the following: is facilitated by the rising use of sensors, controllers, and
the valorisation of the railway modal as an alternative for digitisation of processes in the context of Industry 4.0, which
WW transport, which proved to be promising in the analysis generate data that can be used in LCA. Therefore, new

conducted for the products studied; the creation of legislation studies that address this objective should be encouraged.
that encourages recycling as the first destination option for • Future studies should also explore, through a consequential
virgin wood waste and wood panel waste; the encouragement LCA, the impact of the increased use of wood waste
of new business models that use WW as a raw material in across various production sectors.
the manufacture of new products (open or closed cycles); and • Studies that integrate methodologies with fuzzy membership
the drafting of legislation that encourages the use of WW in could be beneficial and offer valuable insights. Therefore,
the product portfolio of companies that use virgin wood as it is a study field that should be further explored.
a raw material. • Since the use and final destination phase are not included
Using the proposed guidelines, it will be possible to within the scope of this study, future research should

reduce the amount of wood waste discarded in landfills and investigate the use and final disposal phase of bricks and
increase the recycling rate, all of this being covered by a panels (cradle-to-grave or cradle-to-cradle).
market created and maintained for the adequate management • Wood panels with coatings were not discussed in this
of wood waste. paper. Therefore, they require further study.
It should also be noted that, after the possibility of recycling • Within this research field, there are few studies that explore how
has been exhausted, the waste can be used for energy the efficiency of transportation is affected when the wood waste
production, as long as the mixing proportion with panel waste is shredded before being sent to the panel factory. Consequently,

is within the limits established by law, as presented in Pinho its effects should be investigated further. FDM
et al. for the ceramic industry. ENQUIRY NO. 2102