Selfies, storage and tiny nuclear bunkers: alternative uses for your wood-burner

Sadiq Khan wants to reduce air pollution - and one of the worst offenders is the wood-fired stove. But is there any other use for your Scandi-inspired heater?

In a blow targeted straight at the city's middle-class heart, Sadiq Khan is trying to occasionally ban some wood-burning stoves from being used in London. To reduce air pollution, he is seeking powers to prohibit the burning of wood in any areas that suffer from poor air quality. However, there are 1.5m wood-burning stoves in the UK, and that number is increasing by 200,000 annually. So, if you have a wood-burning stove that you can't currently use, what are you supposed to do with it? Some thoughts.

" Use it to burn something less harmful to the environment than wood. Polystyrene perhaps?