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. The Personal Approach If the bad smell is being caused by a neighbour, then in the first instance, a polite, personal approach [...]
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 switch to natural organics instead. What Is Natural Fertiliser? Natural fertiliser, in its most basic form, is anything organic [...]
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 pollution in past years has been high levels of sulphur dioxide and smoke resulting from the burning of fossil fuels for both industrial [...]
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, to stop smoking today. Smoking Facts Smoking causes cancer, heart disease and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, or COPD. Half of all smokers die from [...]
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. However, smoke pollution can be more insidious and much more local with the cause more often due to domestic fires. The [...]
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 traffic fumes. And this figure is set to increase with a prediction of 2,391 direct deaths and more than 25,000 premature deaths by the [...]
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 chemicals used in the fabric finishing process could be damaging your health as well as you [...]
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 can reproduce it long after its first flush has faded. Well its time to wake up and smell the roses – [...]
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 origin into the human body. Of particular concern at this time was the fact that they were used in babies teats [...]
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 harder to understand is that all these years later, scientists are still uncertain as to why it develops and more particularly why it [...]
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 happening within our homes. As we live in temperature-controlled, hermetically sealed atmospheres with all kinds of 20th century gadgets, [...]
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 smells in the air (although there possibly are), but also due to the fact that residential and trading areas are built in closer [...]
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 part of our daily lives. However, occasionally, smell can become a problem and when this happens; it can hugely [...]
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. Then in 1952, as a response to the Great London Smog, the government passed its first Clean Air Act [...]
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 – or even the panic over smog in the run-up to the Olympic Games in Beijing. Smog does fire the imagination – but [...]
