Clean burning wood results in less pollution
Air pollution is a very topical issue today, and there is a real shift towards making our air cleaner. The ‘Clean Air Strategy - 2019’ states, ”Air quality is the largest environmental health risk in the UK. It shortens lives and contributes to chronic illness. Health can be affected both by short-term, high-pollution episodes and by long-term exposure to lower levels of pollution. There are small things we can all do that will make a big difference to emissions locally and nationally.” The ’Clean Air Strategy' has created initiatives to reduce emissions in many areas that it identified, including household wood and coal burning, open fires, and stoves. The proposition is to ensure these fires are as clean as they can be by the year 2022. Clean-burning stoves require clean-burning wood to keep emission rates to a minimum. So, how are ‘clean-burning woods’ classified as such? Clean burning wood has one inherent property; it’s as dry as possible. Wood from trees t