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All slow combustion woodheaters tend to smoke at light-up or refuelling.  However, there is no reason for woodheaters to smoke excessively for long periods of time if they are operated correctly and are well maintained. Information on the causes of excessive wood smoke is provided below.

Local councils receive hundreds of complaints about neighbourhood wood smoke every winter and many councils already run local campaigns to educate residents about correct wood heater use.

Local councils can educate the community about the effects of wood smoke and advise on how to reduce winter air pollution in their local area.

The following scripts are designed to be read by an announcer. You may be able to negotiate to have the scripts read as a community service announcement free of charge. Contact your local radio station for further details.

The Protection of the Environment Operations Act 1997 (POEO Act) provides for the issuing of smoke abatement notices.

Up to $15,000 is being made available to individual NSW councils under the implementation project for the Clean Air Regulation Amendment 2015.

Air quality monitoring in Muswellbrook and Singleton, the major population centres in the Upper Hunter, indicates elevated particle pollution levels that periodically exceed the national air quality standards. While coal mines are a major source of particle emissions in the region, wood smoke from solid fuel heaters also contributes significantly towards particle pollution.