Modeling wood product carbon flows in southern us pine plantations: implications for carbon storage

Table 5 Portion of primary product carbon remaining in use and in landfills in year 100

Ranking	In use	In landfills	Total	Smith et al. estimation (total)
Lumber	0.184	0.470	0.654	0.639
Plywood	0.307	0.492	0.798	0.645
OSB	0.306	0.493	0.798	0.696
Non-structural panels	0.009	0.703	0.712	0.592
Engineered wood	0.487	0.377	0.862	–
Poles	0.082	0.509	0.555	–
Pulp and paper	0.000	0.228	0.228	0.151
Landscaping and Bedding	0.000	0.131	0.131	–
Miscellaneous	0.000	0.718	0.718	0.521

Estimates from Smith et al. [32], one of the most commonly cited wood product carbon studies [28, 31, 34, 37, 39, 69,70,71,72], are provided for comparison. Portions from year 100 are presented to match the timeframe of Smith et al. Estimates up to year 120 are provided in Additional file 1: Tables S33–35

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