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Bristol Post
Bristol Post
National
Yvonne Deeney

Campaigners claim increase in wood burners is causing air pollution to go through the roof

Air quality monitoring sensors in Easton have shown that levels of air pollution have gone through the roof in the last week.

Campaigners at Residents Against Dirty Energy (RADE) who installed the initial sensors three years ago claim there is a direct link between the increase in wood burning stoves and the high levels of Particulate Matter air pollution.

In the last week the level of PM2.5, the fine particulate matter not visible to the naked eye but damaging to health, was recorded as being well above the World Health Organisation (WHO) limit on air pollution.

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