http://www.braenderoeg.dk
Hovedparten af de fine partikler fra danske kilder
kommer fra brændeovnsrøg.
Røgen indeholder også en helbredsskadelig blanding af
kræftfremkaldende tjærestoffer og hormonforstyrrende
dioxiner.
Kendskabet til brænderøgens sundhedsskadelige virkninger
har været udbredt i USA siden 1980.
I Danmark vinder denne indsigt kun langsomt frem.
HelbredseffekterRøglugt er et faresignal.
Luftforurening med fine partikler, tjærestoffer og
dioxin kan give anledning til alvorlige sundhedseffekter.
Det gælder både akutte effekter som irritation af øjne,
næse eller hals og langtidseffekter som allergi, astma,
kræft og lunge- og hjertekar-sygdomme.
Små børn, ældre mennesker og folk med luftvejslidelser
tåler dårligst brændeovnsrøg.
BeskyttelseErstat jeres egen brændeovn med en mindre
sundhedsskadelig opvarmningsform som f.eks. varmepumpe,
eller fjernvarme.
Tal med venner og naboer om røggenerne fra brændeovne.
Ved væsentlige røggener kan I kontakte teknik- og
miljøforvaltningen i kommunen.
Landsforeningen (LOB) kan måske hjælpe jer med at få
fjernet røgproblemerne i jeres boligområde.
Landsforeningens formålAt fremme kendskabet til
brænderøgens skadelige virkninger for at få fjernet
røggener fra boligområder.
At opbygge et vidensarkiv til hjælp for Landsforeningens
medlemmer.
At bistå medlemmer i deres klagesager over
røggener.IndmeldelseSend en mail med dit navn, adresse
og tlf.nr. til foreningens formand Solveig C.-Dupont
cand.scient. braenderoeg @ braenderoeg.dk
eller ring 2084-4014
Medlemskontingent er 75 kroner år
Excerpted from the World Health Organization:
International Agency for the Research of Cancer
HOUSEHOLD COMBUSTION OF SOLID FUELS
Indoor emissions from household combustion of coal
(Group 1)
Indoor emissions from household combustion of biomass
fuel (primarily
wood) (Group 2A)
http://monographs.iarc.fr/ENG/Meetings/95-coal-biomass.pdf
Rolf Czeskleba-Dupont of Denmark has written a research
report, which was edited last November at a
transnational publisher on "Toxic emissions
and devaluated CO2-neutrality. Expanded combustion of
stem wood violates sustainable development".
Reviewers may order it as an e-book
from: info@vdm-publishing.com
Possible readers are those, who are interested in
climate politics without suppressing local pollution
themes as e.g. Chlorinated dioxins (PCDD/F) from the
combustion of wood. The Danish Ministry of the
Environment has, unfortunately, made a junction between
these two issues in its 2006 report to the Stockholm
Convention. In an appendix, technicians recommended to
restrict the use of wood stoves and other small
combustion appliances without flue gas cleansing. But
they were stopped in this initiative by a statement on
climate politics favoring wood combustion as
CO2-neutral. However, according to earlier information,
wood combustion (as all biomass combustion) emits more
CO2 pr. unit of energy released than all fossil fuels.
And, according to the most recent country statistics
reported to international conventions, 2/3 of all dioxin
emissions from Danish sources stem from wood stoves
(also 70% of fine particle mass and 91% of PAH).
Concerned citizens may be inspired to further
information gathering.
Environmental, energy and climate policies need fresh
reflections. In order to evaluate toxics reduction
policies the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic
Pollutants is mandatory. Denmark's function as lead
country for dioxin research in the context of the OSPAR
Convention is contrasted with a climate policy whose
goals of CO2-reduction were made operational by
green-wash. Arguments are given for the devaluation of
CO2- neutrality in case of burning wood. Alternative
practices as storing C in high quality wood products
and/or leaving wood in the forest are recommended.
A counter-productive effect of dioxin formation in the
cooling phase of wood burning appliances has been
registered akin to de-novo-synthesis in municipal solid
waste incinerators. Researchers, regulators and the
public are, however, still preoccupied by notions of
oven design and operation parameters, assuming that
dioxin behaves on line with other toxic pollutants from
incomplete combustion. Evidence is given that this is
not the case.
Societal-historical problems of lacking consistency in
dioxin research are contrasted with more sustainable
approaches. This is obligatory reading for concerned
citizens.
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