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Community
Advisor - Restore VS Replace (PDF) |
March/April, 2004 |
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Perhaps you’ve heard or
read some of the reports on CNN, in USA Today, and many other sources. Perhaps
you’ve seen a P-T playset get torn down in your town or a local town. You
may even be aware that P-T is no longer being made available for residential
use at your local lumber dealers until a "safer" alternative can be found. |
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Condo
Media - Combating the Dangers of Pressure Treated Wood (PDF) |
March, 2004 |
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Today, Creative Material
Technologies, Ltd. (CMT), of Palmer, MA, is offering an environmentally
friendly solution to seal wood (and many other) surfaces with a “waterproof”,
anti-slip, seamless, and (UV) stable coating that prevents newer PT wood
from cracking or weathering and repairs cracks in older PT wood while preventing
further splintering. |
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Condo
Media - Under Pressure (PDF) |
March, 2004 |
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... In a November
2003 report, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed findings
regarding the dangers of using pressure-treated (PT) wood in playground
equipment, decks, picnic tables, benches, docks, boardwalks and other construction.
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Quaboag
Valley Chamber of Commerce ... |
Jan, 2004 |
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... This system
offers an economical and effective way to coat PT (pressure treated wood)
, which is no longer allowed for residential use as of Jan 1, 2004
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Quaboag Valley Chamber
of Commerce ...(PDF) |
Aug. 2003 |
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.Creative Material
Technologies, Ltd. has formed a new division – Protex Cote. This new firm
offers product solutions to the industrial, commercial, and consumer facility
maintenance and repair markets. |
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Poisoned
Playgrounds... |
May 2001 |
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Arsenic in Pressure-treated Wood — If the U.S. EPA keeps its promise to
lower permissible levels of arsenic in drinking water, it will not be able
to protect the nation's children from arsenic unless it regulates a more
pervasive source of arsenic, pressure-treated wood. |
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