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People burning rubbish and using old, inefficient stoves are getting away with polluting the air because of the lax enforcement of environmental laws, an NGO has claimed.
Rich in detail and visually arresting, Tytus Brzozowski’s 375sq/m mural covering a WHOLE BUILDING was painted almost entirely with anti-smog paints and purposefully created to neutralize nitrogen oxides and other pollutants. As with his previous large format projects, the mural is a dreamlike tribute to the surrounding area, with several iconic buildings presented from the past and the present.
Starting their campaign on November 14 to mark ‘Clean Air Day’, the Polish Smog Alert (PAS) rolled out the two-metre models of human lungs which ‘breathe’ using ventilators placed on their back and gradually change from being white to grey or even black colours.
The three-year pilot study at the Jagiellonian University’s Medical School found that red blood cells produce an allergic response when exposed to smog particles in 75 percent of healthy individuals and 83 percent of already allergic individuals.
The government's "Clean Air" programme may not only clear smog from the air of Polish municipalities, but also become a driving force for the Polish economy in the post-pandemic years, the newspaper Rzeczpospolita reported on Wednesday.
The mural will have the same ecological effect as planting 720 trees.
The man, an employee of Kraków’s Mongolian Culture Centre, said he had forgotten about the city’s anti-smog laws, after locals reported seeing black smoke billowing out of the yurt.
Installed in the shadow of the Palace of Culture the Zero Emission Store consists of a network of 14 kilometres of hand-woven colour-changing thread that reacts to air pollution levels. So if the smog is bad, it glows red, but if the air is clean it turns green.
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