Treated wood in a log burner, a health risk?

[epsilonGreedy]

I was tidying up the old mitre saw cutting location. Many of the offcuts are green in colour because the wood has been treated.

 

Will these treated offcuts give off noxious fumes when burnt? In theory the stove will operate with the door closed but the kindling sized offcuts might start burning with the door open.

[Onoff]

Might explain my headaches with the sh!t my neighbours burn! ?

[SteamyTea]

It is illegal to burn treated timber.

 

Ignorance is no defence.

[saveasteading]

Don't use it. The chemicals are on the surface and deep into pores, and are there to kill insects and fungi. 

Not good for humans either.

Arsenic is no longer an ingredient but the remaining chemicals will cause harm if breathed.

 

"Active ingredients: 16.1% w/v (12.4% w/w) copper (Cu) present as a cupric carbonate ethanolamine complex and 0.64% w/v (0.50% w/w) tebuconazole.

Do not burn offcuts and waste in domestic fires or barbecues. Burning of these wastes in industrial facilities may require specific consents."

[ToughButterCup]

23 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

It is illegal to burn treated timber....Ignorance is no defence.

 

Thanks for telling me that. How is that rule policed?

I ask because illegal-caravan-dweller-living-up-wind-from us  very often burns the stuff

[epsilonGreedy]

29 minutes ago, SteamyTea said:

It is illegal to burn treated timber.

 

 

That is definitive. I am now heading back out to empty the sack of kindling in order to reject the treated pieces.

[SteamyTea]

42 minutes ago, ToughButterCup said:

Thanks for telling me that. How is that rule policed?

By the police as I think it is a criminal offence.

I did out a post up a few years back to the legislation.

 

Starting point.

https://www.gov.uk/guidance/d7-waste-exemption-burning-waste-in-the-open

Edited April 26, 2021 by SteamyTea

[zoothorn]

shove it up thy spout.