10 US cities with the worst air quality revealed by study

Brady Knox

March 17, 04:21 PM March 17, 04:21 PM

A new study including cities in the United States revealed the 10 places with the worst air quality in the country.

A global study from the Swiss air quality technology company IQAir found that 90% of the world's population experiences poor air quality, and just six countries meet the World Health Organization's safe air quality recommendations, CNBC reported.

The company measured the concentration of PM 2.5 — lung-damaging airborne particles — in the air. The WHO recommends anything below five. The U.S. did not meet the qualification because the country had an average of 8.9.

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However, that number was skewed by cities that raise the average — mainly ten places with a PM 2.5 concentration of 10 or higher.

The most polluted city in the U.S. as of 2022 is Columbus, Ohio, at 13.1 PM 2.5 particles per cubic meter. Columbus was followed by Atlanta, at 12.1; Chicago, at 11.8; Indianapolis, at 11.3; Dallas, at 10.9; Baltimore, at 10.7; Los Angeles, at 10.5; Sacramento, at 10.4; Houston, at 10.1; and Detroit at 10.

Despite the relatively high concentration of PM 2.5 in those cities compared to the national average, even the most polluted U.S. city has far better air quality than those at the bottom of the global list.

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The city with the worst air quality in the world is Lahore, India. It scored 97.4, making it nearly seven and a half times more polluted than the most polluted city in the U.S. The countries with the worst air quality, in general, were Chad, Iraq, Pakistan, Bahrain, and Bangladesh.

Poor air quality is tied to a number of health issues, including increased asthma attacks, heart attacks, and premature death.

Coca-Cola and Procter & Gamble responsible of 'greenwashing': Report

Jack Birle

June 30, 12:07 PM June 30, 12:08 PM

Coca-Cola, Procter & Gamble, and many others are creating deceptive promises about bundle recyclability, according to a new report.

Various companies have available "misleading and mendacious" promises with regards to the sustainability and recyclability of their packaging, the Thursday report from the Changing Marketplaces Basis, a British nongovernmental group targeted on sustainability and environmentalism, reported. Coca-Cola, Unilever, IKEA, Procter & Gamble, British supermarket chain TESCO, and Kim Kardashian's SKIMS model are responsible of "greenwashing," or deceiving individuals about a brand's inexperienced initiatives.

"These illustrations demonstrate that brands are presenting resources and selling solutions as much better for the atmosphere when they are possibly complicated to recycle, not recyclable at all or making use of a small portion of 'ocean-bound' plastic that they collected by way of numerous clean-ups," the report mentioned.

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Coca-Cola has advertised applying bottles that are created of 25% marine plastic, but it hides the simple fact it is the world's major plastic polluter, the report said. Procter & Gamble's Head and Shoulders shampoo bottles are dyed blue, that means they can't be recycled despite currently being promoted as manufactured of sustainable components, the NGO included.

Procter & Gamble defended its branding of the "beach plastic" bottle.

"Our Head & Shoulders ocean clean up bottle was a person of the first techniques on our ongoing dependable magnificence journey and served us to discover about the use of PCR within our goods. This pack is no lengthier offered to buy in the Uk but we can confirm that it was recyclable," the enterprise stated in a statement to the Guardian. "We will not nevertheless have all the responses but remain dedicated to making certain Head & Shoulders is a pressure for superior inside natural beauty."

But George Harding-Rolls, marketing campaign manager at CMF, teased that the conclusions represented only a sliver of the sustainability challenges in many products and solutions.

"Our most recent investigation exposes a litany of deceptive and mendacious statements from household names people should really be able to believe in. This is just the tip of the iceberg and it is of essential great importance that regulators just take this challenge significantly," Harding-Rolls claimed. "The field is happy to gloat its inexperienced qualifications with minor substance on the just one hand, though continuing to perpetuate the plastic crisis on the other."

Harding-Rolls is optimistic the report and other attempts will direct to adjustments in the market about sustainability.

"We are calling out greenwashing so the world can see that voluntary motion has led to a industry saturated with untrue claims," Harding-Rolls said. "We ought to embrace systemic alternatives, this sort of as complete reductions in plastic packaging and obligatory deposit return methods."