Impact of New Year's Eve fireworks on the size resolved element distributions in airborne particles

Tanda, Stefan; Ličbinský, Roman; Hegrová, Jitka; Goessler, Walter

doi:10.1016/j.envint.2019.04.071

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“…This was influenced by national restrictions related to the limited possibility of overcrowding and participation in mass events celebrating the New Year, which had an impact on the reduced emissions from fireworks fired. According to the literature, air concentrations of heavy metals such as Cu, Zn and Pb are related to their emission during the fireworks burning [17,18,20,[55][56][57] as was also confirmed by this research. During moss exposure for only 2 days (NYE period) [31 December and 1 January], concentrations of these elements were characterised by values comparable or higher to periods of longer exposure to moss contamination with these analytes (see also Figure 3).…”

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“…Among the different types of pollutants involved in the overall atmospheric aerosol contamination, short-lasting but active point sources of pollution should also be considered [12,13], which include fireworks shows [14]. This is one of the most unusual sources of air pollution, which has been investigated quite frequently and on a large scale in the literature [15][16][17] which allows the identification of specific pollutants related only to the burning of fireworks [18,19]. Although the show associated with the New Year celebrations only takes place once a year, it has a very significant impact on the air quality.…”

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Air Quality during New Year’s Eve: A Biomonitoring Study with Moss

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Mosses are one of the best bioindicators in the assessment of atmospheric aerosol pollution by heavy metals. Studies using mosses allow both short- and long-term air quality monitoring. The increasing contamination of the environment (including air) is causing a search for new, cheap and effective methods of monitoring its condition. Once such method is the use of mosses in active biomonitoring. The aim of the study was to assess the atmospheric aerosol pollution with selected heavy metals (Ni, Cu, Zn, Cd, Hg and Pb) from the smoke of fireworks used during New Year’s Eve in the years 2019/2020 and 2020/2021. In studies a biomonitoring moss-bag method with moss Pleurozium schreberi (Willd. ex Brid.) Mitt. genus Pleurozium was used. The research was conducted in the town Prószków (5 km in south direction from Opole, opolskie voivodship, Poland). The moss was exposed 14 days before 31 December (from 17 to 30 of December), on New Year’s Eve (31 December and 1 January) and 2 weeks after the New Year (from 2–15 January). Higher concentrations of analysed elements were determined in samples exposed during New Year’s Eve. Increases in concentrations were demonstrated by analysis of the Relative Accumulation Factor (RAF). The results indicate that the use of fireworks during New Year’s Eve causes an increase in air pollution with heavy metals. In addition, it was shown that the COVID-19 induced restrictions during New Year’s Eve 2020 resulted in a reduction of heavy metal content in moss samples and thus in lower atmospheric aerosol pollution with these analytes. The study confirmed moss usefulness in monitoring of atmospheric aerosol pollution from point sources.

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Air Quality during New Year’s Eve: A Biomonitoring Study with Moss

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“…Fireworks to welcome in the new year are customary across different parts of the world [ 1 , 2 ]. Around midnight on 31 December in Ecuador, it is also a tradition to burn the “años viejos”, cloth dolls filled with sawdust or paper.…”

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“…The use of fireworks results in raising short-term particulate matter concentrations [ 4 ], which affects public health and visibility [ 5 ], reaching levels that typically exceed both national regulations and the guidelines of the World Health Organization (WHO). Most of the particles aerosolized by burning fireworks consist of metals and compounds in colorful firework displays [ 2 ].…”

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Simulating PM2.5 Concentrations during New Year in Cuenca, Ecuador: Effects of Advancing the Time of Burning Activities

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2022

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Fine particulate matter (PM2.5) is dangerous to human health. At midnight on 31 December, in Ecuadorian cities, people burn puppets and fireworks, emitting high amounts of PM2.5. On 1 January 2022, concentrations between 27.3 and 40.6 µg m−3 (maximum mean over 24 h) were measured in Cuenca, an Andean city located in southern Ecuador; these are higher than 15 µg m−3, the current World Health Organization guideline. We estimated the corresponding PM2.5 emissions and used them as an input to the Weather Research and Forecasting with Chemistry (WRF-Chem 3.2) model to simulate the change in PM2.5 concentrations, assuming these emissions started at 18:00 LT or 21:00 LT on 31 December 2021. On average, PM2.5 concentrations decreased by 51.4% and 33.2%. Similar modeling exercises were completed for 2016 to 2021, providing mean decreases between 21.4% and 61.0% if emissions started at 18:00 LT. Lower mean reductions, between 2.3% and 40.7%, or even local increases, were computed for emissions beginning at 21:00 LT. Reductions occurred through better atmospheric conditions to disperse PM2.5 compared to midnight. Advancing the burning time can help reduce the health effects of PM2.5 emissions on 31 December.

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“…Some researchers were investigating some events (natural and human made) on the air pollution on certain period of year such as after the new year firework or after certain hurricane or any natural disaster producing huge amount of dust. The ambient particulate matter was studied in two European cities during New Year's fireworks [17]. The concentration and the distribution of airborne particles in were measured different cities through different researchers such as Beijing (China) [18], Wollongong (Australia) [19] Newmarket (UK) [20], Uttarakhand (India) [21], Agadir (Morocco) [22] main cities [23] and central and eastern region of Saudi Arabia [24].…”

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Air Quality i n Buraydah, Saudi Arabia

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Alshitawi,

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Exposure to outdoor and indoor air particles (also known as particulate matter or PM) has attracted the interest of the scientific researchers around the world, this is because of the adverse health effects that particles have on the human. Smaller fractions of particulate matter (repairable range, ≤10 µm) give the greatest health problem, because they have the ability to reach deeper parts of the human respiratory system. Many countries have paid attention to the air pollution and made regulations to improve their indoor and outdoor air quality, Saudi Arabia, particularly Qassim region, has not given much attention to the problem of air contaminants in the ambient and indoor environments. In addition, ambient environmental parameters will be recorded. The results obtained from the indoor and outdoor measurements will help us to evaluate the air quality in Buraydah city for different seasons in the indoor and outdoor environments.

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Impact of New Year's Eve fireworks on the size resolved element distributions in airborne particles

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Air Quality during New Year’s Eve: A Biomonitoring Study with Moss

Air Quality during New Year’s Eve: A Biomonitoring Study with Moss

Simulating PM2.5 Concentrations during New Year in Cuenca, Ecuador: Effects of Advancing the Time of Burning Activities

Air Quality i n Buraydah, Saudi Arabia

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