Air pollution

At the first meeting for 2018, the Sofia City Council is expected to approve over BGN 1.5 billion, which the local government will have. The subway remains the most crucial project this year. Over 100 million leva are provided for repairs.

Residents of Bourgas protest against systemic air pollution in the city, BNR reported.

The organizers of the demonstration point out the plants as sources of pollution. According to them, the petroleum and furniture industry are the main sources of air pollution.

Sofia Municipality is working to introduce a "Green Ticket", which is valid in the days of serious pollution of air cleanliness. This is what Yordanka Fandakova, mayor of Sofia, told BNT.

According to her, the biggest problem with air pollution is the heating of solid fuel. The development of the gas transmission and district heating network is the long-term solution.

Faced with growing discontent about the severe air pollution troubling the capital, Skopje, and other urban centres, Macedonia's new government has hired drones to scan for possible culprits from the air.

The masks that people put before their mouths are utopian, ineffective measures. This is what Dr. Kosta Kostov, a national consultant for pulmonary diseases, told BNR. He suggested that the Sofia Municipality set up an expert council to set up rules and to have a spokesman to provide competent information if needed.

The pollution now. Source: airtube.info

Once again dirty air in the capital and on weekends. In the past two days, fine particle levels have reached 250 micrograms per cubic meter at an acceptable rate of 50, reports bTV. This shows the data from the airtube.info site of the "Code: Bulgaria" Foundation.

The Chamber of Environmental Engineers has warned about air pollution levels in Turkey in its latest report, daily BirGün reported on Jan. 5.

Traffic Police in Sofia will no longer register cars that pollute the air. Within a month, inspections will be launched in the streets of Sofia to check for excessive amounts of harmful emissions. Environment Minister Neno Dimov pledged to get funding so that the measures could be applied across the country.

You can check the air quality in each country in Europe provides data from the system and compare it to the other at different times of the day through the first link. Through the second you can check the air quality in Sofia

http://www.eea.europa.eu/themes/air/air-quality-index

India has unveiled a new weapon to combat air pollution - an "anti-smog cannon" that authorities hope to clear the air over New Delhi, AFP informs.

But environmentalists believe that this is a temporary solution as it will not solve the real cause of the air problem.