Indoor air pollution caused by pollutants like lime and pine air fresheners, household cleaning products, deodorants, dust mites in Britain is an unseen problem.
Air Pollution - Pollutants - Health Effect - Efforts to Reduce
Nearly 2.4 million deaths every year are attributable to air pollution. Air pollutants may be solid particles, liquid droplets or gases. Proper planning methods should be adopted to reduce air pollution.
Nearly 2.4 million deaths every year are attributable to air pollution. Air pollutants may be solid particles, liquid droplets or gases. Proper planning methods should be adopted to reduce air pollution.
‘Awareness is the key to reduce indoor air pollution caused mainly by the use of room fresheners, paint and deodorants.’
The University of Southampton’s Stephen Holgate, an asthma expert at who led the report, said that people should live more like grandmothers and throw open the windows of the homes for a few minutes every day, the Guardian reported. He added that there has been little scientific investigation of indoor air pollution in Britain because it is an unseen problem (unlike 1950s smog). He says there is a reluctance to "interfere with industry", too. Holgate noted that until there is more evidence, we should use fewer domestic chemicals, adding that there are 15,000 chemicals circulating in an average human. "We can’t introduce laws to control what people do in their houses, but we can make people aware," says Holgate. He hopes that more people will buy portable air-pollution monitors, which work with apps to measure air quality - a bit like personal fitness-monitors. Once we can measure bad air, we can avoid it. "That’s real people power," says Holgate. "That’s going to change things."
Source-ANI
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