How clean is the air where you live ?

[bfcjg]

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I get a good which is the best rating, typical Burnley. No doubt with the horse methane compensated by a lack of cars ( stolen ones excepted)Blackburn might scrape a good.

[Sidney1st]

Top rating for Didcot.

[Funkydrummer]

Depends on my curry and /or veg intake.

[Chester Perry]

Interesting as I saw another report last week that said Burnley had reported days where it had dangerously high levels of the same

[Quickenthetempo]

Around 30 years ago my young (about 5) cousin from Liverpool had Leukemia and was monitored for bloods weekly. After visiting Padiham for 5 days there was a big improvement in her readings, the doctor asked where she had been and told her to keep coming as often as possible.

Breathing the Padiham air helped her overcome the disease and she hasn't looked back.

The amount of increased traffic in our area now will have made sure we have as much pollution as anywhere else these days. Sadly.

[thelifeofbrian]

1 out of 6 for Wokingham- surprised given all the 4x4 petrol guzzlers in this area...............

[Hipper]

I'm not convinced of the accuracy of this. Mine comes out as '2', the second best.

I live in a first floor flat on a busy High Street with plenty of busses and lorries. My back windows have net curtains and I leave the small window open. The curtain gets black by the open window as a result. The curtains are on expandable springy poles and after around five years (I hate cleaning curtains!) the pole fell down. I put it back up but it fell down again soon after. There was nothing for it but to clean the curtains. I did this and the pole now sits secure again. I assume the weight of pollution on the curtain - and dust I suppose - caused the pole to fall.

[leedsdave]

1 out of 6 for my postcode. Also states the average for Leeds is 1 so why are the Council trying to introduce charges for diesel taxis and buses using the City Centre.

[ablueclaret]

You just need to look at the brown haze on most horizons and the lack of lichen growth on trees to know that even in the countryside the air we breathe is deeply polluted.

[ablueclaret]

This study is just measuring nitrogen dioxide levels, the major health concerns are around particulates.

[South West Claret.]

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/science-environment-42566393

I get a good which is the best rating, typical Burnley. No doubt with the horse methane compensated by a lack of cars ( stolen ones excepted)Blackburn might scrape a good.

Kids getting respiratory broblems despite living in the so called "healthy" countryside, pesticides off farmland maybe.

http://www.pan-uk.org/health-effects-of-pesticides/" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

[Belial]

This study is just measuring nitrogen dioxide levels, the major health concerns are around particulates.

major concerns about PM, however this isn't routinely monitored the same as NO2, although increasing levels of Nitrogen Dioxide (which is a concerning pollutant in itself) tends to go hand-in-hand with increases in particulate matter

I fail to see how this scoring system is accurate - many sites/towns/cities nationally already have what are known as Air Quality Management Areas - meaning they have already breached the legislative limits, and many more (including Burnley who had one a few years ago) are at risk of doing so depending on new developments, increased vehicle usage etc., so how so many fall into the '1' rating is questionable. Just like ClientEarth proved, this government are happy to continue to (try to) hide the true facts from the public when it comes to Environmental issues

[ElectroClaret]

Top end of Clayton gets the whiff off the Whinney Hill tip.
Particularly ripe in summer. You can smell it as you drive through on the M65.

Though I suspect that's not a real health concern, just a nuisance.

[FactualFrank]

BBC2 now is a programme about this.

'Fighting for air'

[IanMcL]

My air is better on a Sunday. Monday to Friday, 3 secondary schools and a primary in a line, fill the road with cars Inc 4x4s for no purpose. Saturday I am at football or cursing a t.v. screen, so the air is blue. That means Sunday is best, unless our game slot is changed!

[Six fingers]

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[yTib]

absolute ********.

i live on a main road and get the same rating as my mother who lives on a country lane.

[Paul Waine]

I'm not convinced of the accuracy of this. Mine comes out as '2', the second best.

I live in a first floor flat on a busy High Street with plenty of busses and lorries. My back windows have net curtains and I leave the small window open. The curtain gets black by the open window as a result. The curtains are on expandable springy poles and after around five years (I hate cleaning curtains!) the pole fell down. I put it back up but it fell down again soon after. There was nothing for it but to clean the curtains. I did this and the pole now sits secure again. I assume the weight of pollution on the curtain - and dust I suppose - caused the pole to fall.

I've checked (1) where I live; (2) Strand, central London and (3) Heathrow. Scores are 2, 3 and 2.

I checked The Strand because there was a report a few weeks back that said it was the most polluted street in the UK.

I checked Heathrow because it reported has having a pollution problem, so bad that it might prevent runway 3 going ahead.

My postcode - turns out it is averaged for the whole borough.

Think we should file this report under - go back and have another try.

[Bin Ont Turf]

https://youtu.be/IxXeJDaEVc8

You've got to love this in the comments section...............

Good job, I'm in Wigan I've been seeing this going on really heavy and blatant around here. I started asking questions 2005 when I came out of work for a smoke and the sky was like that but more uniform and really oppressive. I didn't even know what Chemtrails were but I knew it wasn't right or in anyway normal.

I wonder if he smokes them clean air fags?