(4 July 2013, 09:43)NorthernRaider Wrote: Read an article a few years ago in a gardening magazine that said some of the preservatives used in rail sleepers were carcinogenic and they could leach into soil that you are growing food in ! FYI Did a quick google to see if I could cofirm this but found nowt.
Bit like those poor buggers who got lots of free ash and clinker to lay down as a path system through their allotments only to find the stuff was full of carcinogenics and lead !!!
during soviet times we have a lot of those sleepers that are cancerogenic to human. so actually no one buy them for fire wood since then for a long time.
nowadays sleepers and power line poles are impregnated with eu approved substances. don't know if those are better...
but when in dire anything goes...
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