Burn Better, Breathe Better: Reduce the negative impact your stove or open fire can have on your health
Liverpool City Council are supporting the Burn Better, Breathe Better campaign to highlight the potential health risks from the incorrect use of indoor stoves and fires.
Find out how to burn better with your indoor stove or open fire. Make sure you:
- Check it regularly
- Sweep it professionally
- Feed it the right fuels
Air pollution is the biggest environmental risk to public health.
Using a stove or open fire at home is a major contributor of a pollutant called fine particulate matter (known as PM2.5). These tiny particles can damage your lungs and other organs and can be harmful to your health.
Making small changes to how you burn can provide benefits such as:
- Improving the air we all breathe by reducing the amount of pollution produced.
- Keeping you and your family safe by reducing the risk of chimney fires.
- Helping you get the most out of your stove or open fire so that it performs better – by using less fuel to produce more heat
All of Liverpool City Council is a Smoke Control Area and therefore:
- you cannot release smoke from a chimney
- you can only burn authorised fuel, unless you use an appliance approved by Defra