Recently I received a magazine called The Post from its patent company Goldpine, who are a local timber merchant, selling mainly tanalised pine products. ie treated with Copper, Chromium and Arsenic. I was checking out the back cover shown below
They are boasting or at least implying that they are inexplicably connected to nature. The fact is that arsenic copper and chromium are toxic heavy metals and don't break down but remain in the environment, either as ash, in waterways (aquifers,rivers) or the air in the case of arsenic.
Arsenic is also a carcinogen at higher levels.
Here's a link from a Canterbury university study of the harmful effects of CCA.
Goldmine my issue is partly about honesty. Your products 'protect' by supporting apple trees and vines, but it can be argued that they contaminate the environment with chemicals that are very hard to remove. That is not protection, it's damage.
I'm encouraging you to, like other countries, be brave and take the lead in growing alternates species of timber which are ground durable and need no treatment eg stringy barked eucalyptus. You'll save the environment I'm sure you love. You'll protect us and the orchards and vineyards. Then you can really say "born from nature, for nature".
