Clean Air Hub
What is Clean Air Day?
Clean Air Day is the UK's largest air pollution campaign since 2017, engaging thousands of people at hundreds of events, and reaching millions more through the media. Coordinated by Global Action Plan, Clean Air Day brings together communities, businesses, education, and the health sector, improving public understanding of air pollution, building awareness of how air pollution affects our health and explaining some of the easy things we can all do to tackle air pollution, helping to protect our health and the environment too. In 2021 Southend-on-Sea City council signed up as an official supporter.
The aim of the campaign is to inform as many Southend on Sea residents and visitors as possible about the sources and health impacts of air pollution, what they can do to protect their health, and to encourage people to do something to reduce air pollution on Clean Air Day and in the future.
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Air pollution gets in your blood through your lungs and can affect every organ of the body. But we can all do something to cut pollution to benefit our health and planet. This Clean Air Day take steps towards cleaner air:
Talk to someone about the harms of air pollution. share knowledge to help others understand how to protect their health.
Walk those short distance trips and leave the car at home, where you can. Leaving the car at home and walking instead is better for clean air and health.
Ask local and national decision makers for what would make it easier for you to walk more and have clean air in your community. Support local air quality actions and ask for more
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about 2 months ago
Stop cutting trees down that could be treated.
Many trees are removed because they have a dead limb or worse because they stand in the way of a development or pavement replacement. Trees neutralise CO2 and other toxins in the environment and provide clean air for free. Small saplings cannot remove the same level of CO2 as mature trees. We must find better specialists who can protect our trees.
about 2 months ago
Increase awareness
The council should be doing much more to raise awareness of the dangers of air pollution and carbon emissions. Many people are unaware that they breathe filthy air on a daily basis: https://addresspollution.org/. Doing this through a consultation webpage only reaches a very small number of people (as this pledge shows). You need a massive public campaign in every school, business, home, etc. And also taking decisive action to reduce air pollution, particularly from private car transport.
3 months ago
Leave the car at home and use the train
3 months ago
I would like fresh air day every day, not just on June 16th. Stop jets using Charlie Taxiway polluting local residents homes.
about 2 months ago
I share a car with my daughter.
As I am retired I can organise my week to only use the car one or two days week. My daughter takes the bus or works from home on thise days. Not only does it save us money but it makes me walk or cycle more .
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