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Dutch RIVM: ‘wood-burning accounts for 25% of particle emissions’
Wood-burning stoves, open fires, and fire baskets are harmful to human health, and cause about 11 000 premature deaths a year in the Netherlands /houtrookvrij.nl
According to a new calculation method used by Dutch health authorities, wood-burning stoves are responsible for about one-quarter of fine particle emissions in the Netherlands. That is far more than the figures around 10% communicated before. The new figures show that the burning of wood is an important source of pollution (23%) while traffic, industry,
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