Holzöfen könnten im aktualisierten Umweltplan der Labour-Partei teilweise verboten werden
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/01/wood-burning-stoves-to-face-partial-ban-in-labours-updated-environment-plan
Von fire2burn
Holzöfen könnten im aktualisierten Umweltplan der Labour-Partei teilweise verboten werden
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/dec/01/wood-burning-stoves-to-face-partial-ban-in-labours-updated-environment-plan
Von fire2burn
16 Kommentare
Please make this happen. I love a fire as much as the next human being but in cities it just can’t be argued for any more given the effect of that particulate on stove users, their families and neighbours of users.
Now that the clocks have gone back and the evenings are drawing in, one of the few benefits of returning to GMT, as far as I am concerned, is the opportunity to get a little primal again, light a real fire, and fire up the woodburner.
Yes, it is a middle-class luxury, but the feeling of staring into a proper flame gives a sense of wellbeing that modern heating systems simply do not replicate. The small ritual of preparation matters as well: placing a firelighter, arranging the kindling, adding a couple of logs. Then comes the moment when it catches and I cannot help saying, “Ooh, look. It is going really well!”
There is absolutely no equivalent feeling in turning up a thermostat.
Labour clearly cares deeply about the environment, that’s why they are taxing electric cars 👍
I’m in the full belief within the next decade rolling blackouts will occur. I shall still keep toasty on those cold winter evenings with my open fire. Once that happens watch this kind of thing disappear.
Sure it’s about the environment, but the conspiracy theorist in me wonders if this is also because they don’t like people having some independence from the extortionate energy costs.
In my flat the heating is by far the highest cost in my energy bills. So much that I only put it on if I absolutely have to. If I had the means to make a fire I could certainly stay warm for significantly less.
Low stakes conspiracy: this is pushed by the energy companies to extract more wealth from normal people
The year is 2035 and the UK government has rolled out a farting licence. People with excessive flatulence are not permitted to enter green air zones and are fitted with Co2 monitors so they can be charged directly via PAYE.
As soon as it turns cold, our urban street reeks like I imagine it did during the industrial revolution. People will blame incorrect types of wood or poor installation, but the fact remains that it the neighbourhood air pollution is incredibly striking.
We only have electric in our village so a woodburning stove is a must. We get lots of power cuts, and if it snows, we are cut off with no electric. It all very well if you have central heating and a gas supply. Some don’t have that luxury. We had no electric for 8 days when we had the snow in 2018, and the village wax cut off for 4 days.
Makes sense! You gonna help me drop my heating bill then right?
Unpopular opinion perhaps but they are right to ban these. They are a major source of urban air pollution and alternatives exist.
Right because driving up the price of natural gas won’t have any negative health consequences. What’s Russia’s main export? Pretty sure the farmer I buy my wood from never used the profit to bomb a hospital.
My parents have one, I worry about the air quality in the house, especially with all the nonsense my dad burns in it as a way to save money on wood.
You’d never stop them though, even if there is a ban I think this is the hill my Dad would die on 😅
Until they’re allowed to barge into my home to check… no thank you.
Good, fine, ban them in the cities, just leave us country bumpkins out of it. My wood burner is my primary source of heat, burns only logs that I’ve cut and split myself and that are under 15% moisture.
It’s a wonder the human race got this far if burning wood is so bad for us.
I love my wood burner. It keeps my home lovely and warm, and it saves me on heating bills. I try to buy kiln-dried wood, but it is expensive and so often I just burn wood that I find lying around. Four other houses on my street have wood burners. When I go outside in winter time, everywhere smells of smoke, but I doubt it does any harm. Anyway, there are four other houses making smoke, my wood burner doesn’t make a difference. My neighbour who has young children says that she is worried about their breathing, but I think she is just a busybody.