Sunday, 8 January 2023

'Take a Soak in Your Sumptuous Stone Tub and Relax to the Crackling Sounds of the Roaring Fireplace'

The British Heart Foundation (BHF) have vigourously campaigned about the pollution produced by wood burning in the home. They maintain that, such fires (including 'trendy' wood-burning stoves), produce more small particle emissions than all UK road traffic! Small particle emissions are damaging to human health, including that of the heart (https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2023/jan/08/a-roaring-fireplace-the-polluting-raffle-prize-from-the-british-heart-foundation). Money is currently being raised by Omaze for the BHF, in a 'Million Pound House Draw'. The prize, in this 'charity' draw, is a £3m Islington (London) house. It has a fire pit on the garden terrace and open fires throughout. It appears that 'the left hand doesn't know what the right is doing'. People are pointing out that this seems a wholly inappropriate venture for the BHF to be involved in.

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