Key factsAround 3 billion people cook using polluting open fires or simple stoves fuelled by kerosene, biomass (wood, animal dung and crop waste) and coal.Each year, close to 4 million people die prematurely from illness attributable to household air pollution from inefficient cooking practices using polluting stoves paired with solid fuels and kerosene.Household air pollution […]
Puritrak’s #1 Job
Puritrak indoor and outdoor monitors detect PM2.5 airborne concentrations, and at the same time, Puritrak cleaners effectively and automatically clean your indoor air.A different choicePuritrak means you never worry about filter changes or on/off switches. Our equipment is automatic. And only with Puritrak, can your indoor air quality commitment can be certified by Puritrak, and […]
How people care about air pollution?
Lessons from History2,500 year-old records reveal concern for air pollutionDuring the Industrial Revolution cities were choked with smoke Over time, we’ve learned ways to cut pollution, but the world is rapidly populating, urbanizing, and developingLessons from ScienceIn the past 50 years, studies made by universities, the World Health Organization, governments, NGOs, and other groups of scientists […]
Air pollution: The global problem
Adverse Health EffectsAccording to the World Health Organization, 7 million premature deaths are caused by air pollution. Air pollution has been linked to diseases and conditions like:heart diseasestrokelung disease (COPD)lung cancerrespiratory infectionsWho’s to Blame?Both human and natural activities cause air pollution: Household products and product ingredients can pollute indoor air. Many types of common industrial activity can […]
Exercising outdoors? Choose function over fashion.
A 3M model 7502 half mask respirator paired with 3M 2071 P95 filters is probably the best option available anywhere for exercising. The 7500 series respirator is made from silicone so it’ll withstand sweat while still maintaining a good seal and it can move a lot of air through its twin filters and large exhalation […]
Puritrak awarded Met One Instruments certification
Grants Pass, Oregon, 3 May 2018 — Puritrak today was awarded certification of full competency in servicing the scientific air quality testing equipment, BAM 1020, BAM 1022, manufactured by Met One Instruments. Puritrak representative, Mr. Sam Do, received the training on-site at the Oregon, USA headquarters of Met One. The BAM 1020 is the standard […]
A recipe for disaster? Ingredients of “air pollution” explained
Learn your own health impact of air pollution. Environmental Defence Fund reviews the sources and effects of typical ingredients of air pollution in global cities in an easy to understand.Air pollution is one of the world’s largest killers, responsible for 6.4 million deaths per year (1 in 9 deaths). This is three times higher than […]
Estimating the National Public Health Burden Associated with Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 and Ozone
Public health burden attributable to recent PM2.5 and ozone air quality levels within the United States: Society for Risk Analysis study. Fann, N. , Lamson, A. D., Anenberg, S. C., Wesson, K. , Risley, D. and Hubbell, B. J. (2012), Estimating the National Public Health Burden Associated with Exposure to Ambient PM2.5 and Ozone. Ground‐level ozone […]
The life expectancy of a president
President Barack Obama recently spent 3 days in Delhi, and it’s been claimed that during this period the air pollution knocked 6 hours off his life. So who was responsible for this number?Well, …. me. I gave this estimate to a Bloomberg journalist based in New Delhi who had got hold of me through some […]
You don’t drink wastewater, so why breathe waste-air?
Adults breathe 10–20 cubic meters of air daily day. Children breathe twice that amount. That’s 10,000 to 20,000 liters of air. OK, so you wouldn’t drink a cup of polluted water, not ever right? Then why do you breathe 10,000 liters of polluted air daily? Protect yourself. Get the Air Man App now. […]
