Is it dusty when cooking paper?

When burning paper, due to insufficient combustion, more carbon monoxide may be produced. Inhaling more carbon monoxide will cause human hypoxia, just like gas poisoning. A lot of pigments and spices are added to the burned paper, which will release a lot of harmful substances when it is not completely burned. Inhaling too much smoke from burning paper will have a serious impact on the body and induce many diseases. From the health point of view, it is best not to burn paper.

Hazard of burning paper: 1, pollution: PM2.5 soared, and dark circles appeared everywhere on the roadside.

During the Spring Festival and Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, after dark, people can often be seen burning paper by the roadside. After Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, the air quality in Harbin will drop obviously, and the dust in the air will increase, which will cause serious pollution. Some environmental experts have found that a bundle of paper money can produce about 3 kilograms of carbon dioxide after burning. The reporter learned from the environmental protection department that the major hazards caused by burning paper are: smoke, sulfur dioxide, nitrogen oxides, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and so on. The ash left by burning paper money also contains a lot of PM2.5 with light specific gravity and fine particles, which floats in the air and is not easy to settle.

During the Qingming period, many "black circles" can be seen everywhere on the street, especially at intersections. Black smoke and paper ash often drift around with the wind, which greatly affects the city appearance and environment. Li Shifu, a sanitation worker, told reporters that the paper ash left by burning paper is more difficult to clean than garbage, and it is easy to float everywhere when swept away. Every time I clean up a few pieces of accumulated ashes, I will leave many black ash traces on my body. After the citizens burn the paper, there will still be many black circles on the ground, which often have to be swept back and forth many times, or even cleaned with a shovel to completely clean it up.

2. Waste: Thousands of tons of paper products are wasted.

Burning paper to sweep the floor not only pollutes the environment, but also wastes resources. The reporter learned in the interview that many citizens go to the cemetery of their deceased relatives two or three times a year, and the average cost is more than 100 yuan each time. According to statistics of relevant departments, from the end of March to around Tomb-Sweeping Day every year, more than one million people in Harbin go to cemeteries and funeral homes to pay homage to their deceased relatives and friends, and thousands of tons of superstitious paper products are burned in Tomb-Sweeping Day and Ghost Festival every year.

With the diversification of citizens' life, all kinds of sacrifices have become varied. When people choose paper money, they will also buy some hot-selling ghost products, such as refrigerators, color TVs and villas. These ghost products are all cut and pasted with paper, and only one villa needs 1-2 kilograms of paper, which is very wasteful. According to the funeral management department of Harbin, superstitious paper products such as paper cows and paper horses sold in some shops are prohibited by the state. However, with the improvement of people's living standards, more and more families are willing to invest and pay attention to Tomb-Sweeping Day.

3. Fire: 80% of the Qingming fire was caused by burning paper.

Because many citizens choose to burn paper in the street, it not only pollutes the environment, but also easily causes fires. According to statistics, in 2006, there were 2303 forest fires caused by burning paper on graves in China, accounting for 33% of the total number of fires identified in that year. In 2007, there were forest fires caused by burning paper on graves 1435, with 3 deaths. During the period of Tomb-Sweeping Day in 2009, there were 23 fires in Harbin * * * from 00: 00 on 4th to 6: 00/kloc-0. Most of these fires occurred in outdoor open spaces, and some of them were caused by citizens burning paper. Most of the fires that occurred during the Qingming period were caused by the use of open flames by the sweepers. Fires caused by burning paper money and lighting candles in cemeteries in Tomb-Sweeping Day account for more than 80% of the total fires. Secondly, worshippers throw cigarette butts on the way to the cemetery, and the fires caused by unburned cigarette butts burning hay, leaves and other combustible materials account for about 10% of the total fires in Tomb-Sweeping Day.

4. Injury: shorten the service life of the road.

Burning paper in the street will not only leave a lot of ashes, increase the workload of sanitation workers, but also damage the ground and sidewalk boards. In the interview, the reporter learned that because some residents burned paper on the footpath board, the glass on the footpath board was "disfigured" because of high temperature baking, and high temperature baking was also very harmful to some asphalt roads.

At the same time, some insiders revealed that many burned ghost products contain carcinogenic chemicals, and these ghost products will produce toxic gases during combustion, which will cause harm to people's health.