According to Los Gatos, California-based Summit Views, their densified wood Goodwood� firelogs produce about 50% less smoke emissions than firewood, without the chemical emissions of petroleum-based firelogs.  By switching from firewood to densified wood, large-scale users of firewood, such as hospitality and recreation establishments, can help keep pollution from exceeding the new stricter air standards.  When these standards are exceeded, the air district can impose restrictions such as curtailing wood-burning altogether.
 

�Many people in the California Bay Area have recently heard the �wintertime spare the air� announcements,� said Jennifer Young, co-founder of Summit Views.  �But fewer people know that there is an alternative all-wood fuel that will reduce emissions by about half.�  Until now, the primary fireplace fuel options have been firewood, industrial wood-stove fuel, wax-and-sawdust fireplace logs or gas logs.  Goodwood� firelogs have been developed to combine the best features of each: reduced smoke, all-natural and easy-lighting. Ms. Young says that hospitality guests in high-end establishments seek the ambiance of a wood fire, but do not necessarily want to fiddle with constructing, lighting, and tending it.  Many of these guests find the primary alternative, easy-lighting wax-and-sawdust logs, objectionable on an esthetic level � the look and smell isn�t very much like a wood fire.  Goodwood� firelog bags provide a solution to both issues.  Guests just light the jute fiber bag to get a cleaner-burning, all-natural wood fire.  Visitors at inns such as the exclusive Ventana Inn and Spa in Big Sur, California, have raved about the attractiveness and convenience of the product, and ordered the firelogs shipped back to their distant homes.

Goodwood� firelog bags use 100% all-natural, renewable resources to provide easy-lighting and a beautiful fire in moments...without the petroleum (or recycled plastic) wax binders typical of most manufactured firelogs.  The log chunks and chips are made from pure compressed, densified wood residue from mill and forestry operations.  We use a clean-burning (food-grade) jute fiber burlap bag and a small amount of clean-burning soy wax to ignite the wood. Just place the bag on the fireplace grate and light the bag for a beautiful fire, cleaner-burning than firewood, without the oily fuel smell of wax-based logs.

Also important for the hospitality industry is the improvement in indoor air quality and room cleanliness that comes with using densified wood firelogs.  �The EPA is concerned about the effects of wood smoke indoors as well as outdoors, and our product creates noticeably less smoke and ash inside.  Guestrooms stay cleaner, less smoky and fireplace maintenance is easier,� said Ms. Young. 

Goodwood� firelogs are available in the Western U.S. in natural products retail stores, as well as directly from Summit Views for quantity purchases. 

For more information, contact Summit Views, LLC at 877-872-8341, [email protected] (email), or on the web at www.summitviews.com.