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In winter, the highest concentrations of fine particles in the air occur after midnight. This suggests that most of fine particle pollution is caused by wood heaters left to smoulder over night.

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.