Wood is healthy
Fire and cosiness, two things that are strongly connected in our minds. But burning wood also has a downside: the smoke is unhealthy and sometimes causes nuisance in the neighborhood.
You tackle the following challenges:
Wood is healthy
What should you take into account if you want to heat with wood?
- By limiting the use of wood, you ensure everyone's health.
- By heating correctly, you limit the nuisance for yourself and your neighbours.
- By insulating your home, you will need less heating with wood.
Wood is healthy - for local authorities
Inform & raise awareness
Wood burners are often not sufficiently aware of the problem or underestimate how they can improve local air quality with their choices. That is why it remains important to inform and sensitize them.
Discover the communication materials for local authorities
Legislation & advice
What legal tools do you have as a local authority? What requirements do fuels, stoves and chimneys have to meet? And how do you handle complaints about smoke nuisance from A to Z?
To the overview of legislation and advice
Studies & background information
Looking for more information to inform local policies on domestic wood burning? We have gathered an overview of relevant studies and information sources.
More information
- Wood is healthy (VMM, Flanders)
- Stoke Smart (Department of Environment, Flanders)
- How harmful is burning wood? (Flemish Environment Agency, Flanders)
- Wood stove or fireplace: firing tips (Milieu Centraal, Netherlands)
- Preventing nuisance caused by wood burning (GGD Leefomgeving, Netherlands)
- Toolkit Wood burning by private individuals, how to prevent nuisance? (Anzion Advies and ConCEPD, commissioned by the Ministry of Infrastructure and the Environment, the Netherlands)
- Fire alert (RIVM, Netherlands)
- Heating guide (Atlas Living Environment, Netherlands)
