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Clemens Altaner

Clemens Altaner is Science Team Leader of the New Zealand Dryland Forests Initiative (NZDFI). He is an Associate Professor in Wood Science at University of Canterbury. He has received funding from industry and government for work on naturally durable timber.

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Despite restrictions elsewhere, NZ still uses a wood preservative linked to arsenic pollution

Other countries, including Australia, the US and the EU, have stopped or restricted the use of copper chromium arsenic.

Clemens Altaner

March 1, 2023

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The ingredients of CCA are the heavy metals copper, chromium and arsenic. They don’t decompose and can’t be destroyed like organic compounds by incineration.

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Despite restrictions elsewhere, NZ still uses a wood preservative linked to arsenic pollution

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