The Clean Air Act of 1956 was seen in both the UK and abroad as an important example of environmental legislation, many believe that it was the start of the modern day environmental movement. The Clean Air Act 1956 was extended in 1968 until both acts were consolidated in 1993. The various acts combined are partly responsible for half a century of air quality improvements in the UK and set a precedent for environmental legislation around the world.
The Clean Air Act 1993 objective is to control the emissions of smoke, dust and grit into the atmosphere. Section 18 of the Act allows local authorities to declare the whole or parts of any district as a Smoke Controlled Area. As such, it is an offence under section 20 of the Act for an occupier of the premises to allow smoke emissions from a chimney, unless smoke is caused by an authorised fuel.
There's lots of benefits to only using Ready to Burn firewood
By choosing Homefire Ready to Burn kiln dired wood you know you are getting a qaulity wood fuel product with low moisture, low smoke and improved heatperformance.
- Extremely low moisture content so logs burn hotter than wet wood.
- Less moisture means lower levels of smoke, so you're being kinder to the environment.
- Better for your appliance - burning wet wood blackens stove glass and causes soot build up.
- Buy in the knowledge you can burn straight away - no additional drying time required.
- Perfect log fire with roaring flames and natural woody aroma.
Greatly reduced smoke emissions
Our Homefire products are ideal for smoke control areas and meets the criteria which fuels must adhere to as part of the consolidated Clean Air Act 1993. When using our Homefire range you can have full confidence that we have taken every action to protect the environment with our low CO2 emission product.
