Wednesday, July 3, 2019

Bodmin College Eco-Schools Website

3rd July 2019

Eco-School Brief

L/O: To research and create content for the Eco-school Website

Possible Ideas
Plastic free towns, E.G Newquay
Beach Cleans/River Cleans ? 
Interviews, School staff, Local council, Local 'helpers'
Written Articles About:
Apply to be a plastic free school
Alan Stokes plastic free partnership
Bodmin air pollution

Bold, Underlined, Italic's = What i would want to do.

Plastic Free Towns.
https://www.sas.org.uk/plastic-free-communities/
'It’s not about removing all plastic from our lives. It’s about kicking our addiction to avoidable single-use plastic, and changing the system that produces it.'
8,000,000 Pieces of plastic goes into the ocean every day, 5000 Plastic items pollute every one mile of beach - 5000 plastic per mile of beach-,

Beach cleans/River Cleans?






















This is one area where you can sign up to help out with cleaning up the local beaches and rivers@ https://www.sas.org.uk/plastic-free-communities/ Must get permissions to clean up the beach and fill out lots of forms. With the plastic free school you must fill out the for bellow and complete tasks in order to become a plastic free school:



Must send progress on being plastic free, Beach clean statistics show bellow:



Statistics from 2017 about beach cleans (Above )



Statistics from https://www.mcsuk.org/clean-seas/great-british-beach-clean-2018-report from 2018 Sept 14th - Sept 17th ( Bellow ), site above

  


Bodmin's Air Pollution

The official AQMA( Air Quality Management Areas) Website webpage for Bodmin:            https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/details?aqma_ref=585 Which was Nitrogen Dioxide, Also Cornwall.gov.uk Website with more information about the situation in Bodmin town:
https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/environmental-protection/environmental-protection-air-quality/bodmin-air-quality/
All pollution was produced by cars and lorries according to Cornwall.gov.uk 's Website. This information is as of 2008 (Map of the area affected bellow (Green area with red outline was affected))

This survey of the area was completed 02/07/2008 which brought up the pollution situation which happened around the main town area, and Cornwall council reported on there own website saying the pollution was caused by the constant fumes ' pumped ' out of the exhausts of cars and lorries passing through the affected area. this air pollution is happening all over Cornwall in, St Austell again the nitrogen dioxide was caused by the exhausts of cars and lorries driving on the A390 and this was recorded in march of 2014, July 2015 Truro was recorded to once again be have nitrogen dioxide caused by cars and lorries exhausts that were travailing along the A390 and primarily at Highertown, St Austell's page : https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/details?aqma_ref=1572
Truro's page : https://uk-air.defra.gov.uk/aqma/details?aqma_ref=1596
Cornwall council's Air Quality page : https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/environmental-protection/environmental-protection-air-quality/air-quality-management-areas/

Overview:
Bodmin has a pollution of Nitrogen Dioxide in the main town centre caused by the cars and lorries exhausts, Same for St Austell, Truro ... , There are no clear/Published plans at the current time (12th July 2019 ) for what has happened from 2008 - today, 2019. As of 12th July 2019 there has been no updated air quality reports on/in Bodmin or the surrounding area's. The Bodmin council monitor Nitrogen dioxide , sulphur dioxide, Lead and Carbon monoxide, these are the main concerns for the council, so there must be some more pollutants in the air which they aren't directly telling the public. This was found on : https://www.cornwall.gov.uk/environment-and-planning/environmental-protection/environmental-protection-air-quality/air-quality-faq/ , Last updated 05/10/2018.


Report Write-up

Although Bodmin is just a small town they still get large city's like problems, on 02/07/2008 the Air Quality Management Area's (AQMA) Produced a report on the quality of the air in Bodmin. The results shown that there was a large amount of Nitrogen Dioxide in the main town centre of Bodmin and into the surrounding housing estates, there was then a small report produced onto the Cornwall.gov.uk website stating the causation of the nitrogen dioxide was caused by the local traffic of cars and lorries that were exerting the nitrogen dioxide into the air from there exhausts, but was no problem to healthy residents, but could be harmful for people with lung/heart conditions, so had to be very cautious.

Then on 05/03/2014 the AQMA surveyed the town of St Austell, Not far from Bodmin, and they had discovered the same problem in St Austell as in Bodmin, high amounts of Nitrogen Dioxide again caused by cars and lorries passing through the local roads ( A390 + A391 ). After St Austell's air quality was tested, a year later on 01/07/2015 Truro had there air quality tested and to no one's surprise the AQMA found high amounts of Nitrogen Dioxide caused by once again cars and lorries driving on the A390, one of the same road that caused the pollution in St Austell.

Only last year (05/10/2018) , did Cornwall.gov.uk release an article about the Cornwall air quality FAQ, and mixed in with all of the questions and answers was a question asking about what kinds of air pollution do all of Cornwall councils monitor for, and they replied with Nitrogen Dioxide, Sulphur Dioxide, Lead and Carbon Monoxide. So this statement is showing that there could be more harmful gases around Cornwall which aren't in large amounts for the council or public to worry about. On the Cornwall.gov.uk website they have a 'Clean air for Cornwall strategy' intend to provide help the Cornwall commitments to improve the air quality, this was made public on the 10/01/2019 but there has still been no strategy attached since the first part explaining what the strategy was going to hopefully achieve, as of 17/07/2019.

This here is the map of Bodmin showing the affected area.(Green area)


This here is the map of the affected area in St Austell.(Red area)


Finally, this is a map showing the affected area around Truro.(Red area)



Written on 17/07/2019












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