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The London Wood Burning Project has a role to play in improving public health awareness of the human health impacts of domestic wood burning and is jointly led by the London Boroughs of Camden and Islington on behalf of 20 London Boroughs.
🟠 Moderate particulate #airpollution forecast for 4th March 🟠 mainly affecting those with health conditions. Thanks to @impurbanhealth.bsky.social for finding these displays keeping the public informed 🚦🚦
The image has a peach background and a purple drawing of a house with a person and a cat sitting on the sofa in front of an open fireplace. The chimney of the house has a large monster made of smoke coming from the chimney and text that reads “Domestic Wood Burning, linked to increased risk of asthma and lung cancer. Wood burners. Careless not cosy”.
The London Wood Burning Project is raising awareness and improving understanding of the environmental and human health impacts from wood and solid fuel burning in the home. Find out more at woodburning.london #airpollution
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A pink poster on a tree, the text says "Clean Air Night. If you can smell wood burning, you're breathing in harmful air pollution".
The front window of a house. There is a woman holding a child, standing in the window. The window has three pink posters attached to it.
A pink poster on a tree on a pavement, the text says "Clean Air Night. If you can smell wood burning, you're breathing in harmful air pollution".
A pink poster on a community noticeboard, the text says "Clean Air Night. If you can smell wood burning, you're breathing in harmful air pollution".
Huge thanks to our volunteers for putting up these posters to help shine a light on the uncomfortable facts about #WoodBurning. Here's a selection from London, Sheffield and Manchester. Can you think twice about burning? #CleanAirNight
Clean Air Night is here. Learn the truth about wood burning and share with your friends, family, and community woodburning.london #woodburning
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“Lighting fires in our homes is one of the largest sources of fine particulate air pollution in the UK.” Text is next to an illustration of smoke coming out of a chimney. At the bottom are the logos for Clean Air Night, Global Action Plan and Impact on Urban Health, next to the reference “UK Government Department for Environment Food & Rural Affairs, 2025”.
It's #CleanAirNight. Can you rethink burning, tonight and beyond?
Wood burning creates tiny particles of pollution (including soot and carbon) that lodge deep in our bodies and make us sick. This doesn't just affect the household burning, but their neighbours, too.
“We’ve always used the wood burner, especially during the winter. But then over time, I started to get wheezing in my chest, and I always had a lot of chest infections, I’ve really suffered quite badly with chest infections.” - Laura, Birmingham. Share the facts about woodburning this #CleanAirNight. The quote is appearing in a cloud of smoke appearing from an illustrated wood burner. The logo for Clean Air Night and the date 22 January 2026 is in the bottom corner.
Air pollution from wood burners and open fires contributes to an average of 3,741 cases of diabetes and 1,493 cases of asthma in the UK each year.
Learn more: https://urbanhealth.org.uk/insights/news/woodburning-health-effects
It’s #CleanAirNight! Did you know that wood burning is the most polluting way to heat your home? Air pollution from domestic burning contributes to nearly 2,500 deaths in the UK each year.
Visit cleanairhub.org.uk to find out more.
The image has a green background and an orange drawing of a house with a family sitting on the sofa in front of a wood burning stove. The chimney of the house has a large monster made of smoke coming from the chimney and text that reads “Wood Burners. It’s scary what they’re doing to public health. Wood burners. Careless not cosy.
The London Wood Burning Project is raising awareness and improving understanding of the environmental and human health impacts from wood and solid fuel burning in the home. Find out more at woodburning.london #woodburning
#cleanair
#airpollution
There is a photo of a stack of newspapers with a green filter over them. The text reads “2025 the year in wood burning news” with the London Wood Burning Project logo in the bottom left hand corner.
What were the big stories this year for wood burning? Join us to look back at 2025 as we head into 2026 tinyurl.com/5n8f2634 #airpollution
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The text reads “Can I burn my Christmas Tree?” on a green background with a repeated pattern of graphics showing Christmas trees and wood fires.
Real Christmas trees are popular, but what do you do with your tree when the holidays are over? There are lots of ways to recycle or repurpose your tree, read how to safely dispose of your tree without harming your family and neighbours. tinyurl.com/2xtwc6mb
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#christmastree
Text reads “Find out all about Smoke Control Area Rules” and the background is a fan of Smoke Control Area rule leaflets.
Living in a smoke control area? Make sure you know the rules and the health harms of burning solid fuels for heating. Read more here tinyurl.com/3tcsk546 #woodburning
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Text reads “Is there a link between wood smoke and asthma? The background is yellow with a pattern of small wood fires, and the image is a cartoon child with a downturned mouth and an asthma inhaler and small clouds flying around their head.
Air pollution can be a trigger for asthma, and long-term exposure can cause asthma and other lung conditions. We know that wood burning produces air pollution, so can we say that wood burning causes asthma? Read more here tinyurl.com/mutyfx76 #pollution
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#asthma #woodsmoke
Open fires and wood-burning stoves have risen in popularity over recent years. Smoke from burning causes air pollution which harms the health of
millions.
We can work together to improve the quality of the air we breathe.
woodburning.london
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#airpollution
Black text reads “The link between wood burners and lung function decline”. The background is green and there is an orange drawing of a human torso with the bones and lungs drawn in lighter shades.
New research shows a link between the use of solid fuels at home and reduced lung function in people as they age. Read more here tinyurl.com/55v3wuh9 #woodburning
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Text reads “In the dark about the health harms linked to poor air quality?”. The background is an empty street at night with a single streetlight that doesn’t illuminate much of the pavement.
The @RCPhysicians has called for a UK wide public health campaign about air pollution, as their new poll shows that most British people do not know that the health harms linked to poor air quality include dementia, stroke, heart disease and poor foetal health. Read more tinyurl.com/ycyjkuk6
Photograph of a carbon monoxide alarm with text that reads “Carbon monoxide awareness week. Learn how to protect your home.”
It’s Carbon Monoxide Awareness Week this week! Barbeques, patio heaters, gas cookers, boilers, stoves and fireplaces can all produce carbon monoxide (CO). Find out more about how to protect your home and family here tinyurl.com/bd9w2p53 #CarbonMonoxideAwarenessWeek
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#airpollution
The image has a peach background and a purple drawing of a house with a person and a cat sitting on the sofa in front of an open fireplace. The chimney of the house has a large monster made of smoke coming from the chimney and text that reads “Domestic wood burning, linked to increased risk of asthma and lung cancer. Wood burners. Careless not cosy.
@hackneycouncil.bsky.social is urging residents to give up wood burning and tackle London’s air pollution. Read what Cllr Sarah Young has to say here. woodburning.london/2025/11/19/h... #woodburning
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The text reads “encountering a solid fuel burning smell means particulates are being inhaled”. The background is peach and there are two outline drawings of people with arrows into and out of their faces to indicate breathing in particles.
Our air quality data collection study shows impacts of burning on indoor and outdoor pollution levels.
tinyurl.com/3rxu8f8w
Text reads “30,000 deaths per year as a result of air pollution”; the background is a photograph of a white flower on a misty background.
The Royal College of Physicians writes that around 30,000 deaths per year in the UK may be linked to air pollution, with a health and economic cost of up to £50 billion per year. Read more here. tinyurl.com/y682zyaa #pollution
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#lifespan
The text reads “fighting for breath on bonfire night?”. The background is a photograph of a bonfire at night with showers of sparks coming out into the sky. There are children silhouetted in the foreground.
The chemicals and smoke from fireworks and bonfires could leave people fighting for breath according to @asthmaandlung.org.uk
tinyurl.com/5n799aya #cleanair
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Purple text reads “The link between wood burners and lung function decline”. The background is yellow and there is a blue drawing of a human torso with the bones and lungs drawn in a lighter blue.
Pollution from open fires and wood burning stoves may damage lungs, leading to reduced lung function.
New research suggests that the small particle pollution (PM2.5) produced by burning wood can damage lungs. Read more here tinyurl.com/ytzpzkp8
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Background is a map of London shaded darker where there is a higher concentration of wood burning for heating and lighter where there are fewer. Text reads “Where the wood burners are, mapping the locations and density of solid fuel heating. What’s your area like?”
Why are the wood burners clustered in our towns and cities? Recent research at UCL shows where the use of solid fuel burning is concentrated, read more here woodburning.london/2025/10/15/w...
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Text "air pollution impacts mental health. 10 October is world mental health day how can air quality help? Image is a graphic of a human head with particles drifting out on a peach coloured background
There are known links between air pollution and more severe mental illness. Researchers at King’s College London are working to measure the impact of air pollution on mental health, find out more here tinyurl.com/mr355bbj
Find out all about smoke control area rules
Living in a smoke control area? Make sure you know the rules and the health harms of burning solid fuels for heating. Read more here tinyurl.com/3tcsk546 #woodburning
#smokecontrol
#smokecontrolarea
#smokecontrolrules
#pollution
#airpollution
Peach coloured background with two cartoon picture of wood burning stoves and a hand holding green money. Text reads “Considering buying a wood burning stove?”
As well as being a source of particulate pollution in your home and neighbourhood there are other reasons to reconsider buying a wood burning stove or open fireplace. tinyurl.com/mtvfpvkj
Yellow background with a cartoon of car exhausts, chimney smoke and roasting chicken. Text reads “What about the other sources of PM2.5?”
If domestic wood burning is the second biggest source of PM2.5 what are the others and what are we doing about them? Read more. tinyurl.com/mt7nsrx4 #woodburning
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Air pollution is strongly linked to all five of the leading causes of death in England and Wales in 2023;
* dementia and Alzheimer’s disease
* heart disease
* respiratory disease
* cerebrovascular disease
* lung and related cancers.
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#airpollution #death #causeofdeath
Our air quality data collection study shows impacts of burning on indoor and outdoor pollution levels.
tinyurl.com/3rxu8f8w
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