The first completely electric refuse vehicle, the eCollect, designed by OEM Dennis Eagle, has gone into service in the UK. After two years of extensive safety and efficiency tests to get a comprehensive picture of its safety and durability, the…
Category: Air Quality News
Schools around Europe share results of air quality projects
The CleanAir@School programme saw over 100 schools across Europe use low-cost, easy-to-use air quality samplers to educate pupils how to collect data on air pollution.
Outer London elderly residents negatively impacted by air pollution, report reveals
Air pollution is killing more people in London’s outer boroughs than in the inner city as vulnerable older residents suffer heart and respiratory problems, research from Imperial College suggests.
Improving air quality ‘could prevent 50,000 deaths’ across Europe
Limiting air pollution to the recommended World Health Organisation levels, could prevent over 50,000 deaths across Europe according to research.
90% of the world’s population exposed to harmful levels of air pollution
33 of the largest cities in the world have levels of particulate matter four times higher than the World Health Organisation’s guidelines of 10 ug/m3. The worst polluted cities in the world are all in Asia, with China, India and…
Birmingham on track to implement Clean Air Zone from June 2021
Birmingham City Council is pushing ahead with plans to start its charging Clean Air Zone from 1 June 2021, starting to install ANPR cameras to monitor it. The scheme received approval in late 2020 to go live in the summer…
Oxford City Council proposal to introduce UK’s first localised NO2 air pollution target
Oxford City Council become the first local authority to establish a city-wide air pollution target.
The official journal of WCRAQ, Winter 2021, has been published
The third edition of the new thought-leading magazine for the improvement of air quality has now been published. Read your copy today and don’t hesitate to share it with colleagues. Click on the cover to read FVI. What can you read…
Environment Bill delayed again for at least six months
Environment Bill due to return to Parliament today on 26 January has been halted once again to the disappointment of campaigners and groups.
Rosamund Kissi-Debrah campaigns for ‘Ella’s Law’ after air pollution identified as daughter’s cause of death
Ella Kissi-Debrah’s mother advocates for an ‘Ella’s Law’ to effectively tackle air pollution to prevent further suffering.