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Heating With Wood Air Quality: Protecting Your Health

Learn about the impacts of wood heating on air quality and your health. Discover tips for safe wood heating practices and the importance of modern, efficient equipment. Educate yourself to reduce pollution and safeguard your well-being.

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Heating With Wood Air Quality: Protecting Your Health

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  1. Heating With WoodAir Quality: Protecting Your Health Matt Duvall Basin Educator for Natural Resources Central Wisconsin

  2. Overview • Air Pollution from Wood Smoke • Outdoor Air Pollution • Indoor Air Pollution • Potential Impacts on Your Health • Environmental Safety • How to Heat with Wood Safely

  3. Outdoor Air Pollution • SMOKE is the Problem, Ash is a Sign • Fine Particulate Matter • Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbons • Tars • Formaldehyde • Benzene • Dioxin

  4. Indoor Air Pollution • Equipment • Non-Airtight = By-products of Burning Inside Your Home • Proper Venting • Smoldering Fires • Carbon Monoxide • Outdoor Air Pollution gets Inside • Through Closed Windows and Doors • For You and For Your Neighbors

  5. Impacts on Your Health • Respiratory (Lung) Disease • Asthma • Allergies • Heart Disease • Irritate Mucous Membranes • Carcinogenic

  6. Environmental Safety • Greenhouse Gases • Trees are Renewable • Trees Capture Carbon • Acid Rain • Two Thumbs up for Wood • Particulate Matter • Old Technology can be Dirty • New Technology = Significant Improvement

  7. How to Heat with Wood Safely • Use a Modern High-Efficiency Airtight Stove (EPA Certified) • Burn Clean Dry Wood Only • Burn Small Hot Fires • DO NOT Burn Garbage • DO NOT Burn Treated Wood

  8. Use Modern Equipment • Air-Tight • No By-Products in Home • Proper Ventilation • Installed by Professionals • High Efficiency (EPA Certified) • Less Pollution Outside

  9. Its All in the Fuel • Well Seasoned Wood • Small Split Pieces

  10. Acid Vapors Carcinogenic Tars Dioxins Furans Halogenated Hydrocarbons Sulfur Dioxide Heavy Metals Lead Cadmium Chromium Barium Arsenic Mercury Burning Garbage is Poisonous • Modern Garbage – It Ain’t the ‘Good Ole Days’ Anymore

  11. Summary • Careless Burning can Produce Harmful Pollution • Careful Burning can be Clean and Environmentally Conscientious • Use Modern Equipment • Burn Clean Dry Wood Only • Burn Small Hot Fires

  12. Recommended Websites www.woodheat.org www.woodstovechangeout.org www.outdoorwoodfurnaces.org http://hpba.org/consumer/2/ Questions?

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