biggest cities, as well as in cars driving through traffic. They found that parents could cut their children’s exposure to pollutants by up to 2.5 times if – rather than walk along a busy road – they went on back streets. But going by car is no solution: pollution levels were even higher inside cars on busy roads than on the pavements. Separately, Unicef reported that almost a third of under-18s in Britain live in areas deemed to have unsafe levels of small particulate pollution.
Keep children to back streets
Children walking along busy roads are exposed to 30% more pollution than adults because their height puts them closer to vehicle exhaust pipes, a new study has found. The researchers asked children and adults to carry pollution monitors as they walked along roads in five of Britain’s
biggest cities, as well as in cars driving through traffic. They found that parents could cut their children’s exposure to pollutants by up to 2.5 times if – rather than walk along a busy road – they went on back streets. But going by car is no solution: pollution levels were even higher inside cars on busy roads than on the pavements. Separately, Unicef reported that almost a third of under-18s in Britain live in areas deemed to have unsafe levels of small particulate pollution.
biggest cities, as well as in cars driving through traffic. They found that parents could cut their children’s exposure to pollutants by up to 2.5 times if – rather than walk along a busy road – they went on back streets. But going by car is no solution: pollution levels were even higher inside cars on busy roads than on the pavements. Separately, Unicef reported that almost a third of under-18s in Britain live in areas deemed to have unsafe levels of small particulate pollution.
