From indoor air quality we now move to chemicals outside, where treated pine in children's play equipment, garden furniture and decking, will be banned in Australia from April next year. A report ...

Wood treated with copper chromium 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 ...

The U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission voted unanimously to deny a petition to ban the use of chromated copper arsenate pressure-treated wood in playground equipment. CCA manufacturers and the ...

Government regulators OK'd a phaseout for arsenic-treated wood last week. But they still don't know a good way to get rid of it. And environmentally speaking, that could be a time bomb. Right now, in ...