Eco-friendliness | Residential wood heating

Wood heating generates emissions, for example particulate matter. Therefore, everyone can help protect our environment and our health when heating with wood.

A fire in the woodstove generates comfortable warmth. But wood heating also causes emissions like particulate matter. With the ambitious legal stipulations of the Ordinance on Small and Medium-Sized Firing Installations (1st BImSchV), the Federal Environment Ministry aims to reduce air pollution loads detrimental to human health while at the same time allowing for a more environmentally friendly use of wood as a fuel. Everyone can help by taking into account some tips that are easy to implement when heating with wood.

Wood is a renewable energy source and binds approximately as much CO₂ from the atmosphere as it releases when used as a fuel (thermal use). Therefore, it is almost carbon neutral. A more detailed picture would have to include the effects of its production and transport.