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Article: CCA seen as crucial issue. (C&D News).(chromated copper arsenate)
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- Recycling Today
- Article date:
- March 1, 2003
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Wood treated with chromated copper arsenate (CCA) will present potential recycled wood products contamination, a regulator from the State of Florida told attendees of the C&D World conference in Fort Lauderdale.
Laws are being passed in several states confining scrapped CCA-treated wood to lined landfills, noted William Hinkley of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection (DEP).
Hinkley, chief of the DEP's Bureau of Solid and Hazardous Waste, cited Florida, Virginia and New York as having identified CCA-treated wood as a potential hazard due to the presence of arsenic and hexavalent chromium.
CCA-treated wood is most often used in ...