Going for a walk on New Year’s Day is an annual tradition. For those who’ve had a heavy night of partying it's a chance to blow the cobwebs away and a hearty walk outside can leave you feeling invigorated - setting you up for the year ahead.
11.12.2023 - 07:47 / manchestereveningnews.co.uk
Manchester's Market Street has been named one of the most polluted high streets in the country according to recent data.
A study by GRIDSERVE found the city centre street had 7.6 micrograms of particulate matter per cubic meter of air (µg/m3). The World Health Organisation’s recommended annual level of air pollution is 5µg/m3.
It comes as 76 per cent of high streets in the UK's largest towns and cities were found to exceed the recommended limit - with Stoke-on-Trent being named the worst.
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Stoke-on-Trent, Newcastle, Leicester, Coventry, Hull and Bradford all had over double the recommended limit. At other end of the scale, Glasgow, Edinburgh and Reading had the lowest air pollution.
Sam Clarke, chief vehicle officer at the tech-enabled sustainable energy business, said: “With millions set to hit the high street this festive period, we wanted to look at the state of the nation’s air quality in the locations people will be doing most of their Christmas shopping.
“It’s shocking to see that so many were above the World Health Organisation’s annual recommendations for air pollution, and that one in 10 shoppers are even planning on foregoing the highstreets altogether due to air quality.”
The brand enlisted a planning consultancy to gather the samples using an air quality monitoring device at 11am on either a Tuesday, Wednesday, or Thursday to ensure as much comparability as possible between the locations.
Researchers monitored the level of PM2.5 pollutants in the air, meaning particulate matter that is less than 2.5
Going for a walk on New Year’s Day is an annual tradition. For those who’ve had a heavy night of partying it's a chance to blow the cobwebs away and a hearty walk outside can leave you feeling invigorated - setting you up for the year ahead.
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