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“The code recommends people take steps to protect themselves from air pollution and to reduce their contribution to the problem. This includes keeping homes free of smoke by not burning materials such as coal or wood…”
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“With home woodburning increasing, the [European Code Against Cancer] calls on governments to discourage and phase out solid fuels for heating, cooking and recreation.”
Industry should not be trying to stop councils from communicating the facts.
The health effects of burning are widely known.
Modern stoves are not the answer: some emit MORE tiny particles of soot, carbon and cancer-causing chemicals than older stoves.
Non-essential burning has to stop.
“We know that air pollution has a negative impact particularly on children's health. We know that high levels, be it from wood-burning stoves or traffic, are likely to lead to increased attendances at A&E.”
“Lobbyists for the UK wood-burning stove industry have threatened councils with legal action over public information campaigns warning of the harms of air pollution.”
“I’m shocked. I’ve actually never heard of anything like this - industry lobbying public health servants to ignore a serious public health issue and go against medical advice...”
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Concern over woodburning stoves grows in Northern Ireland
#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health
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A screenshot from a University of Galway press release showing Professor Jurgita Ovadnevaite. A headline says “Low smoke doesn’t mean low risk: All solid fuels found to emit ultrafine particles.”
Burning “smokeless fuels” increases ultrafine particle emissions.
“Based on this data, we underscore the need to move away from residential solid fuel burning as part of the wider societal aim to decarbonise the economy by 2050.”
www.universityofgalway.ie/about-us/new...
“…longer averaging periods (e.g., daily or annual mean concentrations) do not reflect temporal peak concentrations that can be especially dangerous for high-risk groups…”
Wood burning is a choice…
Tackling residential wood combustion "could lead to outsized improvements in air quality.”
An opportunity to reduce the toll of 8,600 premature deaths each year in the US and 2,600 in the UK.
My latest piece for @theguardian.com.
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
Good news from Kraków, where a ban on domestic burning of wood and coal is estimated to have saved 6,000 lives so far by reducing air pollution: www.theguardian.com/environment/... .
NEW: Have your say on DEFRA’s solid fuel burning consultation.
If you're affected by #WoodBurning, this is a critical moment to get your views across to the government. We've created some guidance to help you respond - the deadline is 19th March. Please share far and wide!
#AirPollution #Health
Wood Smoke pollution harms pets too
#AirPollution #WoodBurning #Health #AnimalHealth
www.dsawsp.org/blog/wood-sm...
“Children living in homes with wood burners could be exposed to over three times more pollution than those in non-wood-burning homes…”
New Pollutionwatch column by @drgaryfuller.bsky.social.
‘Air That I Breathe’ is a body of work that has been donated to the Ella Roberta Foundation over the last ten years.
Curated by Dr Rosamund Adoo-Kissi-Debrah, the exhibition runs until Saturday 21 st February: www.ellaroberta.org/campaigns/ai...
“How pronounced the link was between particulate exposure and death varied by season and demographics. A stronger association appeared during cooler periods, and people in rural areas…”
Hmmm…
We hope they do more than just turn Norwich into another ineffective Smoke Control Area.
A new story on our website from an inversion-prone “High Smoke Sensitivity Zone” in British Columbia.
Repeated and extended prescribed burning on top of smoke pollution from wood stoves “affects every area of life.”
“A molecule of CO2 emitted today has the same impact on the climate whether it comes from coal or biomass.”
Professor Sir Stephen Holgate writes for the Royal College of Physicians:
“…one of the UK’s most damaging sources of air pollution comes from our own homes… ”
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