Résumé
Current environmental concerns push towards more sustainable and local practices forbiomass production. In this regard, agroforestry has been highlighted by researchers and poli-cies as a highly efficient approach for carbon sequestration (between 1.5 and 4 t C/ha/year),and a sustainable alternative to deforestation with many agricultural benefits: deeper root-ing of trees in soil, enhanced biomass productivity, crop fertilization... Agroforestry impliesregular branch cuts that are processed into wood chips and mostly used as energy wood orsoil mulching. New higher added-value chains could be considered such as reinforcements orspecific molecules for bio-based materials and chemistry.Besides, since 90’s, Wood-Plastic Composites (WPCs) have experienced significant growth,particularly in building (decking & siding), and constitute the largest share of bio-based com-posites developed at an industrial scale. Nevertheless, the quality of WPCs and variabilityin their performance are major technological issues for their implementation in industrialapplications. This is due to difficulties in tracing the origin of wood fillers and the differentprocessing steps, from drying and defibration process to composite manufacturing, that arenot well controlled. Indeed, numerous interdependent parameters govern the final proper-ties of WPCs, such as biochemical composition, presence of contaminants (binders, woodtreatment residues, varnishes...), (micro)structure, thermal stability, mechanical propertiesof wood fillers, and the control of their milling/sieving and further processing into compositematerials.In this context, the development of quality-controlled agroforestry wood fillers in terms ofgranulometry, chemical composition and physical (microstructure, mechanical) properties istherefore strategic for their implementation in wood-based products. This work investigatesthe influence of wood species (poplar, oak, walnut, chestnut)) and filler size and shape on themicrostructure and mechanical properties of polypropylene (PP) / wood composites manu-factured by extrusion/injection moulded. Moreover, woods from three recovery platforms inBrittany (mix of several species) were also investigated to evaluate the potential of existingagroforestry feedstocks