The difference in air quality between lockdown and the first days after it ended was insane. Not only was it noticeably different but the speed in which you could taste the pollution was ridiculous. Just one day of traffic, which was still below normal level, was enough for the air to become heavily polluted again.
Will probably be used by anti-LTN car-ists as evidence to justify driving their kids to school “so they aren’t exposed to dirty air”.
polluted air really is one of the Guardian’s pet projects isn’t it. If it’s not a war on wood burners it’s a war on cars, or a war on factory output.
Note how they only ever talk about current figures and never show trends over the past few decades (or more) – as that would show a significant improvement in air quality as we shifted the majority of our major industry to developing nations and homes and businesses up and down the UK stopped routinely burning coal.
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The article uses data from this website, which you can use to check your own home
http://www.addresspollution.org
The difference in air quality between lockdown and the first days after it ended was insane. Not only was it noticeably different but the speed in which you could taste the pollution was ridiculous. Just one day of traffic, which was still below normal level, was enough for the air to become heavily polluted again.
Will probably be used by anti-LTN car-ists as evidence to justify driving their kids to school “so they aren’t exposed to dirty air”.
polluted air really is one of the Guardian’s pet projects isn’t it. If it’s not a war on wood burners it’s a war on cars, or a war on factory output.
Note how they only ever talk about current figures and never show trends over the past few decades (or more) – as that would show a significant improvement in air quality as we shifted the majority of our major industry to developing nations and homes and businesses up and down the UK stopped routinely burning coal.