Our neighbors are poisoning us. We know how many Poles still burn garbage
4 percent Polish households smoke. This result is almost twice as high for households living in single-family houses and amounts to 7%.
And that’s not all there is to know about bad habits: as much as 25 percent. households declared that in the last 12 months they sometimes used poor quality fuels, such as fine coal, wood or biomass, for energy purposes. As many as 29% admitted to using these fuels in the previous 5 years. respondents, so the positive change in habits is small. 18 percent use wood and biomass for energy needs. households, 9 percent households use coal of lower quality, such as fine coal and dust.
The data discussed come from a survey conducted by the Polish Economic Institute on a representative group of households.
Why do people burn garbage?
Waste was most often burned by households living in single-family houses (85% of those burning waste) located in villages or towns with less than 20,000 inhabitants. people (71%). Most of them were households with 4 or more people (52%), using a coal, wood or biomass stove as the main heating source (68%). 94 percent surveyed households declaring they burn waste do not have access to hot water from the network, 91 percent – for central heating, and 64 percent – to the gas network.
Thermal conditions were a big challenge – 46%. people who smoked garbage lived in a house that was not properly insulated, and 54 percent used supplementary heating sources. In the entire population, access to hot water from the network reduced the chance of burning lower quality fuels by as much as 13 times, access to central heating – by 11 times, and connection to the gas network – by almost three times.
