Air quality in Hong Kong

By: Curtis Leung 8J

Questions

• What makes this happen?

• How bad is it?

• What is the Air quality now?

• What is the solution?

What is air pollution?

Greenhouses gases is produced by the four different type of gases:

• CFC • Methane• Nitrous Oxide • Carbon dioxide

With these four gases it could pollute the environment and the air quality.

Air quality

There are many ways damage the Air quality. Mainly the gas are produced by Motor vehicle, power generation, Marine vessel, Fuel combustion and Aircraft.

The graph showed hereTells us that in the year 1993, it was mostly produced by Power Generation. But in the 1999, Motor vehicle is More than power generation 30%. The total emissionsdecreased from 17,547 to9,879.

Pollution

Hong Kong is facing the one of the main air pollution. It is the street-level pollution. Vehicles are the main source of the street level because every vehicle produced loads of gases every day. Now days, most of the pollution comes from the Motor vehicle and the power plant’s contribution to green house gases is reducing.

It could even damage your health!

Nowadays over 2,800 people has

been affected by the Air quality.

Road

The government knew that many people has been complain about the air quality in Hong Kong. Even many people has been affected by the gas released over us. Reports has been found out that most of the pollution comes from busy roads. At the second problem was that many people live and work near the busy roads which will damage many people who go near the book.

The damage in here as you can see you can tell that the pollution in Hong Kong that even you are in a good view the huge thick pollute air covers the entire view.

Recycle bins

Nowadays people are trying to solve this problem by using the recycle bins. It works by recycling the three objects the plastic, paper and aluminum. The progress works by normal put like a rubbish bin instead having signs of telling people the different things you put in.

This way will make less burning the materials that we don’t need. All those stuff you recycle will be give to a factory which will use different materials into an another object.

Solutions of motor vehicle

Nowadays the government of Hong Kong is trying to reduce to amount of gas we produced everyday. He is trying to make lesser percentage of the motor vehicle. So the government change every taxi into a more environment hoping it will reduce the amount of gas released into the Air.

• As you can see here is a sign which tells us that this car is change to a more environmental car but this usually only appear in Taxi.

How to reduce the air quality in Hong Kong

• We can drive less, instead walk, environment cars and use van or bus.

• Stop throwing the rubbish in the rubbish bin, use instead a recycle bin.

• Use more environment power generator• Sail lesser in marine