‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows

Share Your Green Design | ‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows

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Share Your Green Design | ‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows

Year:

2021
Share Your Green Design | ‘Eco’ wood stoves emit 750 times more pollution than an HGV, study shows

Country:

United Kingdom

New wood burning stoves billed as more environmentally friendly still emit 750 times more tiny particle pollution than a modern HGV truck, a report has shown.

Only stoves that meet the ecodesign standard can be legally sold from the start of 2022 in the UK and EU, but experts said the regulation was shockingly weak.

The report used data on the emissions produced by stoves in perfect laboratory conditions and the pollution could be even higher in everyday use, the researchers said, with older stoves being much worse.

Tiny particle pollution – called PM2.5 – is especially harmful to health as it can pass through the lungs into the bloodstream and then be carried around the body and lodge in organs. At least 40 ,000 early deaths a year are attributed to wood burning in Europe.

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