BURNING WOOD - THE FACTS

Happy Friday to you all, Have you had anybody come up to you yet and say, \'Oh, you\'re going to have to take your stove out soon\' or \'you won\'t be able to burn wood soon\' or \'stoves are going to be banned\' ? What a load of .....ash! You can now tell them they are totally wrong and badly informed!! In 2019 the Clean Air Act Strategy was announce forming the backbone of negative media coverage on burning wood and woodburning stoves. The original report does not reference any breakdown of appliance type within its “stove” definition, therefore open fires will undoubtedly be included in the study’s figures for “stoves”, which they say account for up to 70% of wood burnt in London alone!! Since then new key documents and reports have enabled accurate emission modelling and have found the previously accepted contribution of indoor domestic burning to the UK’s PM2.5 emissions has been dramatically over estimated, with almost half the emissions coming from outdoor bur

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