A new EPA report sees 'the same towns popping up again and again' for air quality breaches.
Other monitoring stations where there were a relatively high number of daily readings included Edenderry, Co Offaly ; Longford town and Macroom, Co Cork .The daily limit for for particulate matter is 50ug/m3. The limit is considered breached if there are more than 35 exceedents during the year.these are risks to people's health.
"I think the regulations - passed by the Government in October of last year - are not being vigorously implemented and enforced, perhaps, by local authorities. "Increasingly we're seeing people burning wood which may be damp, and therefore contributing to particulate matter in wood-burning stoves under the illusion, I think, that these are a clean fuel."It's only if you have very dry timber and secondary combustion in your stove that you can be assured of not releasing pollution into the atmosphere".
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