Landforce opens its new responsible wood production facility in Pittsburgh’s East End. The event featured remarks from elected officials, a ceremonial sawmill demonstration, and a facility tour highlighting how the project will expand green jobs and workforce training opportunities while reducing waste and cutting carbon emissions.
The Responsible Wood Production Facility - known as The Mill - is Landforce’s newest initiative. Anchored in a 10,000-square-foot site in Pittsburgh’s East End, The Mill reclaims and repurposes fallen or salvaged urban trees, transforming what would otherwise be landfill waste into high-quality lumber, pallet parts, tree stakes, firewood, and biochar.
With support from the EPA, state and federal grants, and major philanthropic foundations, Landforce has invested nearly $2 million to bring the facility to life. Over the next three years alone, The Mill will pull 381 metric tons of fallen trees out of the waste stream, mill 5,200 board feet of lumber, and produce 56 metric tons of biochar - all while removing an estimated 214 metric tons of CO2e from the atmosphere.
Landforce is the local nonprofit that provides transitional employment and workforce training via land stewardship projects and maintenance.
