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hmm, I think this is misleadingly precise. Most towns/cities only have a handful of monitors, if that, and these often seem to be barely functional, and placed at unrepresentative locations. So the precise figures given here are clearly modeled based on very limited and questionable data. For example local pollution in residential areas from wood-burners and gas boilers won't be picked up if the only pollution monitors in town are next to non-residential roads.

You can buy accurate particulate monitors for under £100, worth it if you're concerned, especially useful to know how in-home readings differ from outside.
 
house up the road nearer the main road is one percentile higher, so presumably they're estimating from position/nearness to main roads.
 
16th percentile but moving to the 20th soon. Where I lived till 2020 was 86th

The air is definitely clearer here although I am less than 200m from what becomes the M5 a mile or so later :)
 
platinumsage said:
hmm, I think this is misleadingly precise. Most towns/cities only have a handful of monitors, if that, and these often seem to be barely functional, and placed at unrepresentative locations. So the precise figures given here are clearly modeled based on very limited and questionable data. For example local pollution in residential areas from wood-burners and gas boilers won't be picked up if the only pollution monitors in town are next to non-residential roads.

You can buy accurate particulate monitors for under £100, worth it if you're concerned, especially useful to know how in-home readings differ from outside.
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This. There are a few monitors within a mile or so of where I am, but the locations are on busy roads so they won't be representative of the whole area.
 
platinumsage said:
hmm, I think this is misleadingly precise. Most towns/cities only have a handful of monitors, if that, and these often seem to be barely functional, and placed at unrepresentative locations. So the precise figures given here are clearly modeled based on very limited and questionable data. For example local pollution in residential areas from wood-burners and gas boilers won't be picked up if the only pollution monitors in town are next to non-residential roads.

You can buy accurate particulate monitors for under £100, worth it if you're concerned, especially useful to know how in-home readings differ from outside.
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Would be good for it to be more precise, at the moment it looks like even a lot of seemingly fine places (around mine isn't rural but it certainly likes to pretend it is) suffer from higher pollution than you'd expect.
 
14th percentile, which surprises me as I live right on a very busy roundabout and the traffic noise is constant, all day every day. Still breaking two WHO limits though.
 
96th %ile at mine
0th %ile at my parents where I've spent half the last year. Does it even out? That's an average of 48th %ile :hmm:
 
platinumsage said:
You can buy accurate particulate monitors for under £100, worth it if you're concerned, especially useful to know how in-home readings differ from outside.
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I remember Friends of the Earth doing a promotion a few years ago, aimed at schools I think, where they analysed the contents of a test tube that had been put up in a location. It sounds like you're talking about something more permanent, with a rolling measurement. Have you got any links?
 
stavros said:
I remember Friends of the Earth doing a promotion a few years ago, aimed at schools I think, where they analysed the contents of a test tube that had been put up in a location. It sounds like you're talking about something more permanent, with a rolling measurement. Have you got any links?
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There's loads, ones like this but you can also get snazzy-looking ones that work with Alexa or whatever.

I've got a Laser Egg that alerts my phone if the neighbours start a barbecue so I can run upstairs and close the windows. It also alerts if you fart near it though. :D

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Surreal how they put up a photo of your house with the results !
One of my neighbours was moving and offered the chance to take over the pollution detector he had as part of a project - maybe it's the same project ...

pollution.jpg
 
Maybe I'm a bit blasé about it, but I grew up with local industry and coal fires ...
the QRISK heart health calculator makes my postcode meaningfully worse than where I grew up ...

So my present home is 89, and my parents' family home 2.4 miles down the road in relative suburbia is 70 ...
 
Ha I got paranoid and chose a house a couple down on the same side. You can almost taste the pollution some mornings. But I think the river and trees help soak some up.
 
85th. Not sure how up to date it is though because they knocked down an estate next door a few months ago and there's been a minging pile of rubble shedding dust in our street ever since.
 
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