A general problem in the recycling of furniture is that different materials and components are included within a single piece of furniture. Not only is the furniture built of components such as wood, leather, textiles, foams, steel and others but the wood component is also very often a composite made of wood, adhesives and functional additives such as water repellents or chemical substances as surface treatments. Sometimes these additives make cost-effective recycling of the composite wood difficult because of problems related to the separation of the components. The purpose of this study was to present an alternative product design for wood-based panels i.e. particleboards, which reduces or avoids many of the problems in the recycling of wood-based panels used in furniture. The results show that it is possible to produce wood-based panels in a way that facilitates the recycling of these panels although there are still some challenges which have to be dealt with. The concept as such seems to be promising.