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    Scientists claim wood fired pizza is bad, saying baking it is ‘damaging to the urban environme

    The pizza slice that comes at a price

    Scientific report announces emerging risk caused by wood burning stoves in pizza restaurants and charcoal in steakhouses to the environment

    A recent study has shown that emissions in major cities caused by restaurants such as pizzerias and steakhouses using wood burners can be damaging to the urban environment.

    The findings published in the journalAtmospheric Environment points out the underlining pollution causes of the Latin American city of Sao Paulo in Brazil. This work is a collaborative effort by ten leading air pollution experts from seven universities, led by the University of Surrey’s Dr Prashant Kumar from the Department of Civil and Environmental Engineering, under the umbrella of University Global Partnership Network (UGPN).

    The Latin American megacity of Săo Paulo is the only megacity worldwide that uses a much cleaner bio-fuel driven fleet. With about 10% of Brazil’s total population, Sao Paulo’s inhabitants fill their vehicles with a biofuel comprising of sugarcane ethanol, gasohol (75% gasoline and 25% ethanol) and soya diesel.

    Dr Kumar said: “It became evident from our work that despite there not being the same high level of pollutants from vehicles in the city as other megacities, there had not been much consideration of some of the unaccounted sources of emissions. These include wood burning in thousands of pizza shops or domestic waste burning.”

    Despite feijoada (a pork and bean stew) being the often hailed Brazil’s national dish, pizza is revered by the residents of Sao Paulo. The ‘pizza day’ is celebrated every July and the neighbourhood pizzeria is the Sunday dinner with the family venue for most of the city’s residents. People of all ages line up for hours outside pizzerias every Sunday evening and the city is home to around 8,000 pizza parlours that produce close to a million pizzas a day and can seat up to around 600 people a time. In addition to the 800 pizzas a day being made using old-fashioned wood burning stoves, a further 1,000 a day are produced for home delivery, with Sunday being the busiest day of the week.

    Dr Kumar continued, “There are more than 7.5 hectares of Eucalyptus forest being burned every month by pizzerias and steakhouses. A total of over 307,000 tonnes of wood is burned each year in pizzerias. This is significant enough of a threat to be of real concern to the environment negating the positive effect on the environment that compulsory green biofuel policy has on vehicles.”

    Co-author Prof Maria de Fatima from the University of Sao Paulo added, “Although the huge number of passenger vehicles and diesel trucks are the dominant contributor to particle emissions, at least we understand the impact that this is having on the environment and can factor in solutions. The important contributions to particle emissions gained from burning of wood and the seasonal burning of sugar cane plantations need to be accounted in future studies as they are also significant contributors as a pollutant.”

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    Pizza oven makers will struggle and emerge.
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    $#@!ing idiots!

    The problem isn't wood fired ovens it's cities...

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    average big city.... a million cars burning a collective million gallons of gas every 20 minutes

    but 2 pizza joints burning a few wood logs.... omg panic!

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    there probably should be a law

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    Could you imagine all of the gas that floats up into the atmosphere on a daily basis in a medium sized city just from Farts?

    Probably more than the woodburning.... and the Farts (24/7) never close .
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    You can take the ovens when you pull the pizza slice from my cold dead hands. I'm not joking. Try me.



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    Only a matter of time...no more grilling, bbqs, fireplaces or campfires.

    Freedom.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Only a matter of time...no more grilling, bbqs, fireplaces or campfires.

    Freedom.
    Just use a microwave like a normal person
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    If you really want to keep your ovens you can move to Germany

    They have some pretty big ovens
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    Quote Originally Posted by Anti Federalist View Post
    Only a matter of time...no more grilling, bbqs, fireplaces or campfires.

    Freedom.
    Start BBQing politicians.............Thousands of dogs would be delighted.

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    Quote Originally Posted by TheTexan View Post
    If you really want to keep your ovens you can move to Germany

    They have some pretty big ovens
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    Quote Originally Posted by dannno View Post
    I did Nazi that coming.

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    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    $#@!ing idiots!

    The problem isn't wood fired ovens it's cities...

    You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to tod evans again.

    Quote Originally Posted by tod evans View Post
    Start BBQing politicians.............Thousands of dogs would be delighted.
    Who are you gonna clean the filthy bastards.
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