Waste side story: Garbage trucks make Mumbai’s air even more toxic
Diesel vehicles transporting waste in the city generate toxic pollutants equivalent to 8.74 lakh vehicles driven for one year.
The Environmental Science and Engineering Department (CESE)of the Indian Institute of Technology Bombay (IIT-B) conducted a study of 7,092 trips made each day by 1,144 waste transport vehicles (989 private and 155 municipal vehicles) over a year. Their emissions were analysed for pollutants such as carbon dioxide (CO2), carbon monoxide (CO), hydrocarbons (HC), nitrogen oxide (NOx), and particulate matter (PM).
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