#woodheaters

2025-08-12

How to use a wood heater properly to limit smoke pollution, and why it matters

Robin Phillips was taking the bins out when his airways erupted with pain. The Launceston resident said he…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #advice #Airquality #AU #Australia #bestpractice #burner #fire #firewood #heater #howtouse #wood #woodheater #woodheaters
newsbeep.com/54707/

Mojo ♻️mojo@aus.social
2025-07-28

New national data reveals the deadly truth about wood heaters in Australia:
Hundreds of premature deaths every year are linked to wood-heater smoke.
Researchers say the health toll rivals that of the black summer bushfires in some areas. There’s no safe level of exposure to pollution, yet governments still allow new heaters to be installed.
Maybe itt’s time ban new installations and eventually phase out of existing ones?

#airpollution #woodsmoke #healthpolicy #publichealth #cleanair #australia #environment #climatejustice #actonairquality #bushfiresmoke #pm25 #woodheaters

abc.net.au/news/science/2025-0

2025-07-27

Wood heater pollution is a silent killer. Here’s where the smoke is worst

Every year the winter cold brings an ambient haze of wood heater smoke to the suburbs, streets and…
#NewsBeep #News #Headlines #Airquality #asthma #AU #Australia #centreforsafeair #firesmoke #Pollution #woodheaters #woodsmoke
newsbeep.com/22919/

2023-06-16

Imagine the outcry if factories killed as many people as wood heaters
"Today you would have to drive a diesel truck 500 kilometres to emit as much air pollution as a wood heater does in a single day. And that figure is for a wood heater that meets the current regulatory standards in Australia. Most do not."


theconversation.com/imagine-th
#WoodHeaters #Bellingen #heating #air #pollution #emissions #PrematureDeaths

Wood combustion, wood heaters
2023-05-04

Air quality now at Cootamundra. Not very good due to people using wood fires because it's going down to 0 degrees C tonight and its nearly there.

#airQuality #PurpleAir #woodHeaters

Sensor reading from PurpleAir air quality sensors. Label reads PM2.5 AQI (Australian Air Quality Index). Values are 40.0 in orange for inside, 80.0 in red for outside where all the smoke is. Under the numbers is a stacked visual display showing reading.Map from PurpleAir website showing outside air quality readings in south eastern Australia now. The reading for Cootamundra in real time is 94, a brown dot on the map. This reading is from a sensor in our back yard. 94 is not very good.

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