We are talking about several "treatments" applied to wood as a preservative.

1. Coal Tar - Creosote -
2. Pentachlorophenol -
3. Arsenical -

According to the EPA - put wood treated with these in garbage or bury it.

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"Duane Bozarth" wrote in message ...
| warbler wrote:
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| I know in the past that it was a no-no to throw pressure treated lumber
| into a fireplace or woodstove. Either it was arsenic or some other
| nasty chemical that was the problem. But now that they have this new
| way to treat the lumber with apparently something more eco-friendly,
| can one burn the scraps. I have a lot of this stuff hanging around and
| would love to not burden the garbage man and landfill with it.
|
| Still a no-go...ACQ removed the arsenic from CCA. The MSDS is available
| at
| http://www.ufpi.com/literature/acqmsds-200.pdf