Source: Environment Canterbury Regional Council
How can you help?
The easiest way to see if you’re helping or hindering air quality in Canterbury is searching for your address in the Solid Fuel Burner Database to check when your burner is due to expire. If the information there is wrong, please contact Advisory Services to correct this.
Check if you live in one of our eight clean air zones across the region. They cover Christchurch, Rangiora, Kaiapoi, Ashburton, Timaru, Geraldine, Waimate, and Washdyke.
To reduce home heating emissions, low-emission burners are being phased out in five zones: Christchurch, Rangiora, Kaiapoi, Ashburton, and Timaru.
We all want clean air to breathe in Waitaha/Canterbury. You can help improve our region’s air quality by ensuring you keep in mind for your domestic fire:
- Burning dry, seasoned wood from Trusted Good Wood Merchants
- Getting your fire going quickly and keep it burning hot
- Don’t damp your fire down over night
- Switch to a non-emitting home heating source such as a heat pump; or
- Switch to a pellet fire or ULEB; and
- Don’t burn treated timber or rubbish
