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atmospheric pollution大気汚染とは

☆ and air pollution?

I will say that the air is contaminated by pollutants contained in the smoke of factories and car that we use in life.

☆ causes of air pollution?

You may want to naturally occurring air pollution.
but the man-made source by smoke or automobile factory is the primary.
The pollutants contained in the smoke of the factory, it refers to nitrogen oxide granular suspended solids and (NOx) (SPM), carbon dioxide (CO2).
These substances are including global warming, acid rain, photochemical it causes such as smog.

☆ types of air pollutants!

・ Nitrogen dioxide (NO2)

Nitrogen dioxide is a pollutant a typical cause of air pollution. And automobiles boilers and the like to generating source, as nitric oxide emission during combustion, and then oxidized to nitrogen dioxide in the air. Nitrogen dioxide can cause acid rain as an environmental problem.

・ Suspended particulate matter (SPM)

Is a substance that is floating in the air from that suspended particles. it is pollutant typical of air pollution. To generating source, in addition to man-made source of exhaust gas smoke and automobile factory, can be caused by natural cause of such as forest fires and volcanoes. The suspended particulate matter, is the air pollutant that causes harm to the health of the human body mainly, it may lead to, such as increased risk of death the person who is vulnerable to the respiratory system.

・Photochemical oxidant (Ox)

The photochemical oxidants, cause a chemical changes by the ultraviolet rays of the sun, air pollutants such as hydrocarbons and nitrogen oxidesdischarged at the factory or car, is adversely affecting air pollutants in the human body. If the concentration of photochemical oxidant is high, to act remarkably, such as the eyes and throat, and have provided a warning and issued warnings of photochemical oxidants in the Air Pollution Control Act.

・Sulfur dioxide (SO2)

Sulfur dioxide is the air pollutants that occur when oil or coal is burnt. Smell to stimulate like rotten eggs, the nose is characterized by sulfur dioxide. The Yokkaichi asthma brought on by pollution, air pollution by sulfur dioxide is due.

・Carbon monoxide (CO)

Carbons monoxide is caused by incomplete combustion of oil.
It is the air pollutant tasteless, odorless, colorless, non-stimulated.
There are very scary in air pollutants carbon monoxide.
You may also want to death and would inhale the lethal dose.

☆ improvement of air pollution!

In recent years, national policy for air pollution or been successful, the color of the sky in the Tokyo metropolitan area is now better than before. But, I can say the problem caused by air pollution is still piling up, and solved to far. Regulation of diesel vehicles have been made as air pollution that have been made recently.
Also, I can see that voted in the 1997 Kyoto Protocol, global warming caused by air pollution are also important in the world.
If, as long as we can lead to the prevention of air pollution in usual life, and I think in advance for the better through the cooperation of each.
So let's multiple presented for a method for preventing air pollution in everyday life.

·I do energy saving

And to extinguish the light of the room is not in use.

· I want to practice the reduction of standby energy

Such as turning off the standby energy of TV and audio.

· I make a water-saving

To be used in a washing machine hot water that was used in the bath, and that to stop the shower when you are washing the body stop the water, with body soap and shampoo during brushing.

· I use the resource recovery3r

And be re-used bottles and plastic, and cardboard and newspaper.

·I do weight loss of waste

And devising garbage no longer appears.

• To endeavor to set the proper temperature (cooling and heating)

Etc. to not to the setting temperatures than necessary.
If you want to use the air conditioner in the summer, and in (Cool Biz) about 28 ℃ the set temperature, heating setting of winter to (Warm Biz) about 21 ℃.

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