Photograph: Shahid Khan/AlamyPhotograph: Shahid Khan/Alamyhas experienced a huge rise in the number of houses installing wood burners over the past decade. But as they have proliferated, mainly in the wealthier parts of the city where many Victorian and Georgian houses have been renovated, so too have fears that they cause pollution.
The project is thought to be the first where volunteers have been given newly affordable monitoring technology to gauge pollution partly caused by domestic combustion. Steve Crawshaw, who manages the project for the council, said domestic wood burning was a serious and growing problem. He added that the number of days exceeding WHO pollution guidelines in the ward were broadly in line with the city average, but still a cause of concern.
The number of solid fuel appliances such as log burners installed in Bristol increased sevenfold in the decade after 2007, with just over 900 installations recorded in 2017.
Source: Healthcare Press (healthcarepress.net)
If electricity and gas prices get too high, more people will revert back to wood fire. I’ve seen old pictures of the rural towns and villages around here, and they are greener now then they’ve been for hundreds of years. There are trees which are hundreds of years old also.
Do wood burners outside cities add to air pollution - Yup they do, I can be a citizen scientist too
Here in Australia, air pollution from the practice of fire stick burning has been contentious. Inner city types don’t like smog, so we are left with catastrophic, hot bush fires. Time to let indigenous peoples manage forests like they have for thousands of years.
gee, smoke causes pollution. who woulda thunk it?
Half the freaking world use wood for heating and cooking...growup
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