Air pollution from wood burning stoves

[run_red]

Anyone else noticed that they often stink of wood smoke when cycling/running home? I was pretty confused at first (brain tumor?) but I just found an article which may shed some light on this. A couple of quotes:

"Revised figures show domestic wood burning to be the UK?s largest single source of PM2.5 emissions, 2.4 times greater than all PM2.5 emissions from traffic."

"Few people who install wood stoves are likely to understand that a single log-burning stove permitted in smokeless zones emits more PM2.5 per year than 1,000 petrol cars and has estimated health costs in urban areas of thousands of pounds per year."

Link:

http://www.bmj.com/content/350/bmj.h2757/rr-1

This is a bizarre problem, if accurate. I assumed the clean air zones/act had dealt with this in the 50s ffs. I'm surprised people bother with old fashioned stoves in the middle of a city, is smog a current 'vintage' trend or something?

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[TheArtfulDogger]

Hardly an East Dulwich specific thread plus please see thus one where it was burnt to death earlier... http://www.eastdulwichforum.co.uk/forum/read.php?20,1785535