Campaign work
Environmental Health’s latest air quality campaign work focuses on the areas of woodburning and engine idling.
Burn Right
The Council first launched the ‘Burn Right’ campaign in Autumn 2023. This continued into 2024 and over winter 2024-25. The aim is to remind and educate people in Darlington of:
- smoke control area rules
- the need to burn the correct fuels
The campaign involved;
- articles in the One Darlington magazine
- social media messages
- website updates
- visiting and displaying posters in shops selling fuels
- notices on a digital billboard close to the town centre.
Look at our poster and learn more. Woodburning – Burn Right [pdf document]
Care about your air
‘Care about your air’ - began in January 2023. This is aimed at the issue of engine idling around schools.
The campaign involved;
- press articles
- social media messages
- asking schools to share information on idling with parents and carers
- putting up temporary signs and banners outside schools
Help to keep our air clean, read our sign here. Idling – Care about your air [pdf document]
