Wooden jetty in a marine environment (wood permanently exposed to salt water). Baltic sea |
The OECD Emission Scenario Document (ESD) on Wood Preservatives is an essential tool to estimate the emission of chemicals from wood treated with wood preservatives. The ESD was first published in 2003, and recently a revision has been published that includes revised and new emission scenarios. The ESD considers emissions from two stages of the wood preservatives’ life cycles:
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The original ESD has been used around the world since 2003, and in this time a lot of experience has been gained working with it and additional documents on the estimation of emissions of wood preservatives have been prepared. As a result, the OECD ESD needed to be revised. Major changes to the former version of 2003 can be summarised as follows:
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