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Playground
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Related information
Related
section: Arsenic
treated wood in homes (elsewhere in this site)
Action
Alerts/Reports
To
Learn More About Arsenic in Wood…
For more
information on arsenic-treated wood, testing for arsenic in wood and the
progress of the CCA phase-out, you can visit the following sites:
Environmental
Working Group
This site
(at www.ewg.org) contains a great deal of environment information,
including some very thorough reports. These include “The Poisonwood
Rivals” and its predecessor, “Poisoned Playgrounds.” The site also
offers information on obtaining arsenic wipe-test kits, which is
information that you might want to pass along to officials at your local
schools and parks.
To
download Poisonwood Rivals, click
here.
To download Poisoned
Playgrounds, click
here.
Healthy
Building Network
This site
(at www.healthybuilding.net) has a section on arsenic with tips on getting
arsenic-free wood, links to articles involving CCA-treated wood and more.
You can visit HBN’s arsenic section by clicking
here. Like the EWG Web site noted above, they have arsenic testing
kits that can be used for wood, which you or the officials in charge of
local schools and playgrounds might benefit from ordering.
Environmental
Protection Agency
The U.S.
EPA’s Web site for its Office of Pesticide Programs (at www.epa.gov/pesticides)
contains a section with basic information and numerous links regarding the
use of CCA in wood. Click
here to find out more.
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