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What you can do about wood smoke pollution
Harmful smoke pollution can be drastically reduced if we improve the way we use our wood heaters.
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Don't let your fire smoulder overnight
In winter, the highest concentrations of fine particles in the air occur after midnight. This suggests that most of fine particle pollution is caused by wood heaters left to smoulder over night.
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Wood smoke resources for local government
All slow combustion woodheaters tend to smoke at light-up or refuelling. However, there is no reason for woodheaters to smoke excessively for long periods of time if they are operated correctly and are well maintained. Information on the causes of excessive wood smoke is provided below.
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Education campaign
Local councils can educate the community about the effects of wood smoke and advise on how to reduce winter air pollution in their local area.
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Radio reads
The following scripts are designed to be read by an announcer. You may be able to negotiate to have the scripts read as a community service announcement free of charge. Contact your local radio station for further details.
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Grants for Wood Heater Regulation Implementation
Up to $15,000 is being made available to individual NSW councils under the implementation project for the Clean Air Regulation Amendment 2015.