Wine Industry Wants to Find New Home for Millions of Timber Posts

More than 1 million broken posts need to be replaced in Australian vineyards every year, but Wine Australia warns that the figure could be much, much higher, perhaps as high as 3.3 million, with the vast majority of posts stockpiled on site, sold or given away, or sent off to landfill.

“About 80 million timber posts are installed in vineyards across Australia, of which 78% are treated with CCA (Copper chrome arsenate) – and most of the other timber posts are treated with creosote,” according to Wine Australia, who revealed that cracked poles result in between 12,000 and 30,000 tonnes of wasted wood every year.