Depends. If used for construction, then no. If turned into pellets, then yes.
Of course, calculations like this take the dimmest possible view, in order to be as dramatic as possible. There is undoubtedly room to differ on the details.
Of course, calculations like this take the dimmest possible view, in order to be as dramatic as possible. There is undoubtedly room to differ on the details.
It doesn't just get tossed in the trash, though. They do all kinds of things with the off-cut.
Some of it will end up getting burned, but even in that case it's displacing other forms of heat source, albeit less efficiently.
I don't know about the carbon impact of what goes back in nature, some is decomposed by bacteria, some just stay there, some may act as a fertilizer, I don't think it is bad.