Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH), together with citizens in 338 cities and municipalities, has submitted applications for mandatory filters for new wood-burning stoves and for mandatory retrofitting of old wood-burning stoves. Especially in cities such as Berlin, Munich, Hamburg, Bonn and Freiburg, DUH criticizes excessive particulate pollution from wood-burning stoves. Currently, more and more people are switching to wood stoves due to the war in Ukraine.
"Local authorities must not rest on the EU's lax limit values," says Hannah von Blumröder, air pollution control officer at DUH, "by doing so they are harming people's health against their better judgment. Instruments such as information campaigns, regional funding programs or pilot projects for filter retrofitting can already be implemented now and make an important contribution to clean air."
DUH cites the city of Aschaffenburg as a positive example. If someone wants to apply for a municipal building plot there, it is clear from the outset that the operation of so-called single-room combustion systems, such as fireplaces, is prohibited. In a paper on measures, DUH makes suggestions to municipalities on how they can reduce their particulate emissions locally. The action paper can be downloaded free of charge at duh.de.
Source: duh.de
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