Visit Briefing｜REWOOD Forest Circular Economy Site Visit
Dear guests：
Welcome to REWOOD. We are very pleased to welcome you to our site and share our work with you.
REWOOD is a Taiwan-based organization focusing on forest circular economy, sustainable resource use, environmental education, and local revitalization. Our work begins with a simple but important question:
How can we give local forest resources a longer, wiser, and more meaningful life?
To understand REWOOD, it is important to first understand part of Taiwan’s forestry background.
Taiwan’s Forest Conservation Background
Since 1991, Taiwan has implemented a national policy to conserve natural forests. This policy played an important role in protecting Taiwan’s natural ecosystems. However, over the past three decades, it also brought major changes to the local forestry industry. Taiwan’s domestic timber industry, related processing technologies, equipment, export experience, and professional workforce were all deeply affected.
The Decline of Local Wood Utilization
As the industry declined, many forest-related skills, facilities, and systems gradually weakened. Today, Taiwan’s domestic wood utilization rate remains very low. Many local wood resources, especially urban trees, pruned branches, damaged trees, small-diameter wood, and leftover materials, are often treated as waste rather than valuable resources.
Climate Change and New Challenges
As the industry declined, many forest-related skills, facilities, and systems gradually weakened. Today, Taiwan’s domestic wood utilization rate remains very low. Many local wood resources, especially urban trees, pruned branches, damaged trees, small-diameter wood, and leftover materials, are often treated as waste rather than valuable resources.
At the same time, Taiwan is now facing a new challenge. In the era of climate change, we need to rethink our relationship with forests, nature, cities, and local communities. This is no longer only an industrial issue. It is also connected to natural disaster prevention, urban tree management, carbon storage, biodiversity, environmental education, and local resilience.
Why REWOOD Was Founded
This is the background from which REWOOD was born.
REWOOD does not own a mountain or a large forest. Instead, we began by asking:
Can urban forest resources become the starting point for rebuilding forestry skills, material value, circular economy, and local resilience?
Our answer is yes.
Seeing Urban Forest Materials as Resources
In many places, branches, pruned trees, damaged trees, small-diameter wood, or leftover wood materials are often treated as waste. At REWOOD, we see these materials differently. We regard them as valuable resources that can be transformed through proper management, processing, design, education, and product development.
REWOOD’s Circular Economy System
Our circular model connects several stages: tree and forest management, material collection, processing, product development, environmental education, ESG applications, and local partnerships. Through this process, local wood materials can be transformed into useful products such as biochar, wood vinegar, furniture, learning materials, and other sustainable applications.
Building a Resilient Urban Forestry Ecosystem
Over the years, REWOOD has developed a unique model from urban forest resources. Although we do not own a forest, we have been able to create thousands of pieces of urban forest furniture, produce large volumes of natural cleaning products, develop biochar applications, and build a resilient ecosystem with more than 30 partner companies and professionals.
REWOOD as a System Builder
This is why REWOOD is not only a product company.
REWOOD is a system builder.
What Visitors Will Experience
During your visit, we will introduce how REWOOD turns overlooked forest materials into long-term environmental, social, and economic value. You will learn how biochar can support soil improvement and carbon storage, how wood vinegar is collected and applied, how urban forest materials can become furniture and learning tools, and how forest resources can return to daily life, schools, communities, and sustainability projects.
Understanding the System Behind the Products
This visit is not only about seeing products. More importantly, it is about understanding a system. REWOOD’s work shows how local resources can be managed more wisely, how waste can be reduced, how forestry-related skills can be rebuilt, and how circular economy can become a practical model for climate action, education, disaster resilience, and local development.
REWOOD’s Sustainability Vision
We hope this visit will help you better understand REWOOD’s approach to sustainability:
to turn overlooked forest resources into a circular system that supports the environment, society, and the economy at the same time.
Future Collaboration Opportunities
If there is an opportunity in the future, we would be very honored to explore how this forest circular economy model could be adapted and developed together with your country, organization, academic institution, local community, association, or even through individual collaboration.
A Shared Responsibility for the Future
We believe that meaningful work like this can create positive change not only for one place, but also for the world and the environment we all share.
We look forward to welcoming you and exchanging ideas during the visit.