One burger worse whole truck

If you want to reduce the level of air pollution in your city and area, for the beginning simply refuse to purchase fast food. Scientists from the University of California found that the level of pollution from one hamburger higher than that of the whole truck.

It is a commercial grill for cooking meat, which are used in the schools of this kind. Scientists have found that these grills emit a huge amount pollutants   in the form of solid particles. Much more than trucks or factory with smoking chimneys.

"Commercial manufacturing meat grills are significant and uncontrolled source of particulate emissions exceeding the volume more than twice the level of emissions pollutants   from heavy-duty diesel trucks, - said study author Bill Welch. - For comparison, 18-wheeler with a diesel engine to overcome the distance of 200 km in the air ejects the same mass of particles as in the preparation of a single hamburger exercised on this grill ".

Residents of the community in South Boston to check the validity of this conclusion by example. They claim that they literally "smoke" from their homes owners of newly opened establishments for the production of fast food. "It's terrible - says who lives not far from dives Mary Madden. - Damn smoke creeps into our windows of the houses, and the worst thing happens on the weekends."

The owner of the restaurant at a meeting with the residents promised to install a new air purification system that will block harmful emissions.

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