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A question is missing in the registration form about barbecue and vegetal waste burning

Open MagTun opened this issue 4 years ago • 6 comments

Your registration form mentions stoves and fireplaces ( line 80 and 92 of form.py), but you don't mention other wood-burning sources of PM like barbecue and burning vegetal waste in one's garden. These event creates a high peak of PM during a few hours, and/or contribute to the accumulation of particles during specific weather.

I live in a small French city, which has no industry, low traffic, no highway... Most of the pollution comes from people fires: during spring and summer, it comes from barbecues, people burning their garden waste or farmers burning vegetal waste. These come on top of to the chimney smoke in winter, so it smells like burning several times per day, during the whole year.

My-neighbors'-barbecue-triggers-peak-of-PM

To help interpret the data, you could simply add this missing question: "Do people burn vegetal waste in your area or barbecue ? 1 = very little, 10 very much."

MagTun avatar Aug 13 '19 04:08 MagTun