Air Pollution Agenda

The problem: Air Pollution

The Room: CERT Research & Innovation Centre

The Date of Meeting: Tuesday 13th March

Start and End times: 9:05 – 9:30

Group Members:

- Chairman: Mohammed Abdulla H00214394

- Minutes taker: Abdulaziz Faez H00210495

- Participants:

· Abdulla Jaber H00229972

· Abdulla Hussein H00229909

Causes of Air pollution:

a- Industries’ chemical waste.

b- Burning trash and garbage.

c- Exhaust emissions

d- Deforestation

e- Destroying the green environment

f- Pesticides

g- Smoking in a closed area in a small public place

Main effects of air pollution:

a- Acid rain

b- Increase in the gas CO2

c- Global warming: kills the ozone layer which will allow heat and direct sunlight to enter the atmosphere, making skin diseases and increasing the temperature.

d- Melting the North Pole: which means that the sea level gets higher every year, which could damage some peninsulas and coastal cities.

e- Lung diseases and breathing problems due to increase in CO2 gas.

Agenda:

- Convince people to use hybrid vehicles.

- Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

- Underground metro.

- Issuance of rules that limit the industries.

- Recycling & re-use of newspapers and plastic bags.

Mohammed Abdulla the chairman of the group started the meeting at 9:05 by introducing himself and the members of the group. In the first part of the meeting Mohammed Abdulla asked the participants what are the causes of air pollution? Abdulla Jabber said the chemical waste is the main reason for air pollution and Abdulla Hussein added, the chemical waste also affects human health.

Mohammed Abdulla mentioned deforestation, then Abdulaziz asked the meaning of deforestation and Mohammed Abdulla explained it which means cutting forest trees. Abdulla Jabber and Abdulla Hussein agreed that is a big problem and it affects the air.

Abdulla Jabber said that cars' exhausts also affect the air, because car emissions have a lot of CO2 which is dangerous and everyone agreed with that. Abdulla Hussein mentioned that smoking is also one of air pollution causes but Abdulla Jabber didn’t agree with what Abdulla Hussein said; he said that it is not a big issue but it's a dangerous for people and it is bad for their health.

Mohammed Abdulla the chairman mentioned that the acid rain is one of the results of air pollution but Mr. Hedley didn’t know what is that and Abdulla Hussein explained to him what it is. Abdulla Hussein said the CO2 increased in the earth and this is dangerous; because of CO2 the temperature of the weather is increasing and scientists call that Global Warming. Because of global warming or temperature increasing, ice in the North Pole melts so seas and oceans water rises up so islands and coastal cities will drown after some decades. Mr. Hedley wanted proof of water rising and Abdulla Jabber said Maldives Islands. Mr. Hedley said that he went on a fishing trip on a sunny say and he said he saw a yellow fog around Abu Dhabi city; Abdulla Jabber said it is pollution and all of that because of car emissions.

1. Convince people to use hybrid vehicles.

Abdulla Jaber said it is a good idea to reduce the pollution in the air but there is a problem which is hybrid cars are expensive and the spare parts of these vehicles are not available.

Abdulla Hussain said it is a good idea.

2. Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

Mohammed Abdulla said using the buses is a very good idea to reduce the CO2 in the air by reducing using cars.

Abdulziz said it is a good idea but the problem is that buses are not comfortable.

Abdulla Jabber and Abdulla Hussein agreed with Mohammed Abdulla.

3. Underground metro.

Abdulla Hussein said it is not a good idea because a metro still issued smoke, was expensive and it requires years to be built.

Abdulla Jaber said it was to solve and reduce the traffic not air pollution.

4. Issuance of rules that limit the industries.

Abdulla Jabber said that factories must obey the rules because factories are the biggest source of toxics gases.

Mohammed Abdulla mentioned that acid rain comes from toxics gases and industrial waste.

Abdulla Hussein agreed with what they said.

5. Recycling and re-use of newspaper and plastic bags.

Abdulla Husain said recycling is a good method because instead of burning materials that cause damage to the environment we recycle them and use them again; also Abdulla Jabber agreed with that.

All the members of the group agreed that some of these solutions are successful to reduce the pollution in the air:

1- Recycling used materials.

2- Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

3- Making strict rules to limit the pollution of the chemical waste that results from the factories.

Also, spread the awareness in the society by advertisements and telling them the effects of air pollution.