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Old 01-12-2005, 02:30 PM posted to uk.rec.gardening
Rupert
 
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Default What to do with lengths of timber


"Martin Brown" wrote in message
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Spider wrote:

I know you could burn it for fuel, but that would only add to pollution
levels. Perhaps a creature tower is the very sort of creative
'something'
you had in mind?


Wood rotting naturally by fungal action also releases dioxins. There is no
free lunch. Pristine woodlands actually have detectable levels of dioxin
from natural sources (with or without recent forest fires).

It comes from the way fungal enzymes attack lignin in wood...

Regards,
Martin Brown


Any chance of some type of link to this?
I was under the impression that fungal action was one way of degrading
dioxins into non toxic materials.