A British study showed that children inhaled air pollutants on their way to school more than 30% more than the parents sending them to school because children are shorter and closer to the car exhaust pipe.
The Environmental Protection Agency’s “Global Action Plan” conducts research in four British cities in Manchester, Leeds, Glasgow, and London. It allows some parents and children under the age of 11 to wear air pollution monitoring equipment to measure the roads along the roads with fewer cars and walk along the roads. Now many air pollutants are exposed to each of the four school transportation through walking, private car, and bus. The results showed that children on the way to school are 30% more air pollutants than parents inhale; walking along school roads leads to 2.5X times more air pollutants than walking along roads with the fewer encounter of traffic jams and cars. Internal air pollutants are 50% more on the sidewalk.
Chris Rudge, the head of the Global Plan of Action, said that one simple way to reduce children's inhalation of air pollutants is to choose roads with small traffic flow.
The British newspaper "The Independent" quoted Jonathan Craig, a professor at the Queen Mary University of London, saying: "The children's lungs are particularly vulnerable because they are still growing... My research shows that inhaling the air pollutants generated by a lot of traffic is against them. The lungs have serious effects."
The British "Daily Telegraph" reported that a study conducted by the UK office of the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) showed that one out of three children in the United Kingdom lives in an area where the air quality does not meet health standards. The Office called on the British government to make the governance of heavily polluted areas a top priority and provide financial support.
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