Mutualités Libres among 140 health and environment experts calling for more clean air measures
, explained: “As a health insurance fund, we have to protect the health of our members. As air pollution is a major health risk, we want to contribute evidence
Bruyneel and team looked at the air pollution outside the homes of 176,000 members who lived in Belgium’s 20 largest cities. Even without the low emission zones, air pollution would be expected to improve as older polluting vehicles were replaced with newer models. They therefore looked for any extra changes inside the zones compared with the 17 cities with no zone.
They also looked at soot particles. These are a major air pollutant from the exhausts of older diesel vehicles. Antwerp and Brussels were the worst cities in Belgium before the zones started but this league table has now been turned upside down. The soot concentration around members’ homes in Brussels is lower than the average in cities across Belgium, and Antwerp has lower concentrations than the other cities in its region.
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