Air pollution ( Agenda and time taker)

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.

 

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.