{"id":56089,"date":"2024-11-14T16:29:19","date_gmt":"2024-11-14T11:29:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/?p=56089"},"modified":"2024-11-14T16:29:19","modified_gmt":"2024-11-14T11:29:19","slug":"recent-report-reveals-major-contributors-of-air-pollution-in-punjab","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/recent-report-reveals-major-contributors-of-air-pollution-in-punjab\/","title":{"rendered":"Recent report reveals major contributors of air pollution in Punjab"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A recent report released by The<span class=\"s1\"> Urban Unit of the Punjab government revealed the details about the <\/span>primary contributors to <a href=\"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/pakistan\/motorway-smog-update-m-2-m-4-m-11-opened-after-early-closure-on-thursday\/\">air pollution<\/a> in Punjab.<\/p>\n<p>According to the report, major sources of air pollution include industrial emissions, vehicular exhaust, and burning of agricultural waste.<\/p>\n<p>The study indicates that <span class=\"s1\">smoke-emitting vehicles are the largest contributors with a staggering 83.15% of the total air pollution levels. F<\/span>actories and power plants are also among the largest offenders, releasing <span class=\"s1\">9.07% of harmful<\/span>\u00a0pollutants into the air.<\/p>\n<p>According to <span class=\"s1\">The Urban Unit report,<\/span> agricultural waste burning also plays a crucial factor in exceeding air pollution levels but it is way below than it is generally discussed.<\/p>\n<p>The burning of crop residue contributes 3.9% to overall pollution levels, while the incineration of general waste adds 3.6%.<\/p>\n<p class=\"p1\"><span class=\"s1\">Furthermore, the report indicated that commercial building activities account for 0.14% of air pollution, while household activities contribute 0.11% to the pollution level.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>LAHORE: A recent report released by The Urban Unit of the Punjab government revealed the details about the primary contributors to air pollution in Punjab. According to the report, major sources of air pollution include industrial emissions, vehicular exhaust, and burning of agricultural waste. The study indicates that smoke-emitting vehicles are the largest contributors with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":14,"featured_media":56090,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[23452,23278,23973],"class_list":["post-56089","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pakistan","tag-lahore-smog","tag-punjab-pollution","tag-the-urban-unit"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/14"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=56089"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":56091,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/56089\/revisions\/56091"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/56090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=56089"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=56089"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dailyausaf.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=56089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}