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It's not waste if you are selling it, it is a product.

 

Emitting dark smoke (smokeless zones) mean you should not be burning any wood not just tanalised.

 

Scrap treated timber isn't a product. It's classified as a hazardous waste. There's a directive that requires that waste from CCA class 3 (which is the stuff we use here) timber "shall be treated as hazardous by an authorised undertaking".

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A chap near me went to the docs with a headache, which got worse and worse. Eventually it was discovered that he was burning treated wood on an open fire, and was told he was told by the Doc that he would end up killing himself. He had no idea what the treated timber contained, it was arsenic. I don't think that arsenic is still used? But there is an awful lot of old treated timber out there.

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A chap near me went to the docs with a headache, which got worse and worse. Eventually it was discovered that he was burning treated wood on an open fire, and was told he was told by the Doc that he would end up killing himself. He had no idea what the treated timber contained, it was arsenic. I don't think that arsenic is still used? But there is an awful lot of old treated timber out there.

 

Sounds like his flue was very poor, you should not be breathing in the fumes for your fire, regardles of what your burning :thumbdown:

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