LIST OF AIR POLLUTANTS
CARBON MONOXIDE
-Fuel combustion
from vehicles and engines
§ NITROGEN DIOXIDE
-Fuel combustion
(electric utilities, big industrials boilers, vehicles) and wood burning.
§ SULPHUR DIOXIDE
-Fuel combustion
(especially high-sulphur coal); electric utilities and industrial processes and
natural occurances like volcanoes.
§ LEAD
-Smelters (metal
refineries) and other metal industries; combustion of leaded gasoline in piston
engine aircraft; waste incinerators (metal burners), and battery manufacturing
§ GROUND-LEVEL OZONE
-Secondary
pollutants formed by chemical reaction of volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and
NOx in the presence of sunlight.
§ PARTICULATE MATTER
-This is formed
through chemical reaction, fuel combustion (burning coal, woo, diesel),
industrial processes, farming (plowing, field burning), and unpaved roads or
during road constructions.
DISEASES RELATED TO RESPIRATORY SYSTEM
Bronchitis
- inflammation or swelling of the bronchial tubes (bronchi), the air
passages between the nose and the lungs
§ Pneumonia
-infection that
inflames the air sacs in one or both lungs
§ Asthma
-Asthma
is a chronic (long-term) lung disease that inflames and narrows the airways
§ Emphysema
- turns the spherical air
sacs — clustered like bunches of
grapes — into large, irregular pockets with gaping holes in their inner
walls and reduce the oxygen that go into bloodstream
§ Tuberculosis
-bacterial
infection that can spread through the lymph nodes and bloodstream to any organ
in your body and most found in lungs
§ Lung Cancer
-uncontrolled growth of abnormal cells that
start off in one or both lungs; usually in the cells that line the air passages
WAYS TO IMPROVE AIR QUALITY
§ -Support car pooling
§ -Avoid smoking
§ -Avoid open burning
§ -Stop illegal deforestation
§ -Use fluorescent lightbulb instead of
standard lightbulb
§ -Use recycle items
§ -Stop using sprays that contain CFC (e.g:
aerosol spray)
§ -Organize awareness campaigns about the ways to improve
the quality of air
§ -Use public transportation
§ -Support hybrid car
§ -Build more green building (energy
efficiency building)
§ -Tighten law enforcement about air
pollution
§ -Penalize those who pollute the air
§ -Support solar powered items
§ -Buy green electricity that produced
low pollution
§ -Recycle papers, plastic,aluminium
cans, glass bottles and cardboard
GOOD HABITS TO IMPROVE THE QUALITY OF AIR
-Switch off the electrical appliances
when we’re not using it
§ -Recycle reuse every things you can
§ -Don’t waste all of the things that we
use whether in house or office
§ -Don’t just throw away the
chemical-based substances, send it to a recycle centre
§ -Walk or ride our own bike to do
errands for shorter distance
§ -When refilling the gas tank, avoid
spilling it to prevent evaporation into atmosphere
§ -Hang the clothes outside to dry instead
of using the dryer
§ -Car pool or use public transportation
§ -Use mechanical pencil instead of wood
pencil
§ -Use correction tape instead of liquid
paper
§ -Shop with canvas bag
§ -Use rechargeable batteries
