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Asthma Fact Sheet
The word Asthma means ‘sharp breath’ or ‘difficult breathing’ and was first described as a medical condition by Hippocrates, so it’s not a new phenomenon.
What is...
Bad Smells and the Law
Almost everything has a smell and for the most part, we live our lives perfectly easily surrounded by all kinds of odours which we have come to recognise and expect as...
Clean Air Standards
There was a time when we didn’t think too much about the quality of our air. Times during the industrial revolution, the air was black with soot and thick with smog....
Complaining About Smell Pollution
If you have a nasty niff in the neighbourhood or perhaps a nuisance neighbour causing a stench, then there are procedures in place by which you can complain....
Gases from Fabric
A little retail therapy is a great way to cheer ourselves up. But next time you pop to the shops to pick up a new outfit, think twice before you buy. Many of the...
Houseplants as Air Cleansers
A third of all office spaces in Europe have inadequate indoor air, so much that in many cases it’s more polluted than that of the street outside and the same is...
Obnoxious Odours
Over the past few years, the number of complaints concerning nasty smells has increased.
The reason for this isn’t necessarily the fact that there are more bad...
Phthalates and Pollution
Phthalates (pronounced ‘thalates’) are a group of chemicals which hit the headlines a few years ago when they were proven to be able to migrate from the product of...
Smog Alerts
What springs to mind when you think of smog alerts? Perhaps the summer weather reports announcing ozone readings, or pictures of the London ‘pea-soupers’ in the 1950’s –...
Smoke Pollution
When we think of smoke pollution we tend to think of ugly industrial landscapes belching out black furls of smoke, and it’s usually somewhere ‘other’ from where we live....
Stop Smoking
Smoking constitutes the greatest single cause of ill health and premature death in the UK with 16,000 smoking-related deaths each year.
A very good reason, then,...
That 'New Car' Smell
We all know it – that ‘new car’ smell that exudes safety, comfort, and luxury. Indeed, manufacturers have even produced air fresheners which mimic this smell so that we...
The Effect of Traffic Fumes on your Health
This month a Royal Society report stated that thousands of people are dying each year because of air pollution, much of this a direct result of...
Using Natural Fertilisers
If you care about the environment and wish to help maintain its complex eco-system, then one way you can do so is to stop using chemical fertilisers in your garden and...
What is Air Pollution?
Air pollution is anything that causes the air to become contaminated with pollutants at levels harmful to our health or the environment.
The main cause of air...
