#indoor-air-pollution

#indoor-air-pollution

Every time you fire up your cooktop, you're releasing pollutants like oil mist and smoke into the air. Without proper ventilation, those particles can drift deep into your lungs, where they can cause irritation ( or worse). Since becoming privy to this information, I've been vigilant about ventilation (and real fun at dinner parties). Unfortunately, the only exhaust in my otherwise lovely apartment is the seemingly-useless fan built into my over-the-range microwave-though,

Air pollution from wood burning and gas cooking is massively costly to our healthcare systems and the economy. These are the conclusions of a peer-reviewed study from New Zealand that calculated the cost of hospital treatment, days off ill and early deaths from the air pollution produced by fireplaces, stoves, gas cooking and un-flued room heaters. Indoor air pollution from New Zealand's 523,000 wood burners was