British schoolchildren become air pollution lab rats in London first | latikambourke
The experiment, which London mayor Sadiq Khan hopes will spread to other cities like Sydney and Melbourne, will see 250 children from five boroughs carry backpacks containing a 700-gram sensor and battery.
On Monday, London breached air pollution limits for 2019. It is estimated that 9000 Londoners die prematurely each year as a result of breathing in toxic air. A student at Haimo Primary School in London with one of the backpacks designed to track air pollution."It's children who face the worst consequences from the poisonous air in our city. When you hear that children, because of the toxic air, have underdeveloped or stunted lungs permanently, it's heartbreaking but it's preventable.
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