Where does this leave people who were encouraged to buy wood burning stoves?
The UK government is consulting on proposals to ban wood and coal burning in households, reports Energy Live News.
The sale of the most-polluting fuels used in UK households are to get the chop as part of government plans to reduce emissions.
The burning of wood and coal in homes is said to be the largest single contributor to particulate matter pollution – formed of tiny particles that can enter the body and cause short and long term health problems – and identified as the most damaging air pollutant by the World Health Organisation.
According to the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra), domestic burning contributes 38% of particulate matter pollution, compared with 16% from industrial combustion and 12% from road transport.
Plans to restrict the sale of wet wood for domestic burning and phase out traditional house coal were initially set out in the government’s draft clean air strategy earlier this year.
The proposals – which include applying sulphur standards and smoke emission limits to all solid fuels and ensuring only the cleanest stoves are sold by 2022 – are expected to prevent 8,000 tonnes of harmful particulate matter from entering the atmosphere every year.
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Defra has launched a consultation on the proposals which will run until 12th October 2018.
Full report here.
Defra consultation letter [pdf]
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