Trichy: The Trichy district administration and pulmonologists have advised the public to stay away from burning old things including plastics during Bhogi festival, as the pollution arising out of it can affect the lungs and heart.
Citing the customary practice of burning logs of wood, cow dung cakes and wooden furniture lying useless at home to celebrate Bhogi, the administration said that with the lack of farm wastes in the city, people living in the cities are just keen to make a bonfire with old tyres and tubes, plastic materials, old mates, broomstick, garbage, and a few other harmful materials, thus increasing the levels of various pollutants like PM2.5, PM10, SO2 and NO2 in the city’s atmosphere.
Exposure to such particles can affect both the lungs and the heart and long-term exposure to particulate pollution can result in significant health problems including increased respiratory symptoms, such as irritation of the nasal airways, coughing or difficulty in breathing and decreased lung functions.
Dr G Kamal of Swasam Asthma, allergy and respiratory centre in Trichy said that the concept of Bhogi has been misunderstood by the people. The burning of tyres and plastic wastes emits toxins including chromium, arsenic, zinc, cobalt, manganese and vanadium in the air. “Often, it forms the base for causing cancer,” he said.
He also suggested the people to go for recycling of such products instead of burning them and hurting the environment and the people.
Besides other ill-effects, burning during Bhogi day causes formation of smog which causes poor visibility thereby disrupting the regular traffic of rail, road and air transport.
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Citing the customary practice of burning logs of wood, cow dung cakes and wooden furniture lying useless at home to celebrate Bhogi, the administration said that with the lack of farm wastes in the city, people living in the cities are just keen to make a bonfire with old tyres and tubes, plastic materials, old mates, broomstick, garbage, and a few other harmful materials, thus increasing the levels of various pollutants like PM2.5, PM10, SO2 and NO2 in the city’s atmosphere.
Exposure to such particles can affect both the lungs and the heart and long-term exposure to particulate pollution can result in significant health problems including increased respiratory symptoms, such as irritation of the nasal airways, coughing or difficulty in breathing and decreased lung functions.
Dr G Kamal of Swasam Asthma, allergy and respiratory centre in Trichy said that the concept of Bhogi has been misunderstood by the people. The burning of tyres and plastic wastes emits toxins including chromium, arsenic, zinc, cobalt, manganese and vanadium in the air. “Often, it forms the base for causing cancer,” he said.
He also suggested the people to go for recycling of such products instead of burning them and hurting the environment and the people.
Besides other ill-effects, burning during Bhogi day causes formation of smog which causes poor visibility thereby disrupting the regular traffic of rail, road and air transport.
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