Air pollutants identified in Pristina

The Department for Environmental Protection, at the Ministry of Environment and Spatial Planning, estimates that Kosovo's air quality trend is roughly the same as other years, meaning that even this year in the last two months has been overcoming the allowed pollution values.

The “is true that Pristina and several other urban and industrial areas have the highest level of pollution”, the ministry said.

The MMPH Media Information and Monitoring Office emphasises that the main sources of pollution are energy production, the use of fuels for heating and production and road traffic.

Valdete Tahiri-Azem, official for media information and monitoring, has told KALLXO.com that in the function of improving the quality of the MMPH air, it has drafted a plan of activities for the fall of 2017-2018, which has also been approved by Minister Albena Resiti.

“In this plan, among other things, are identifying the main sources of pollution in Pristina and concrete measures have been taken to ease the impact on air quality from these sources”, the ministry's response reported.

Meanwhile, the Pristina municipality, in its responses to the KALLXO.com, stresses that it plans to set new sensors for measuring air pollution next year.

The aim of the Pristina municipality is not to take the role of MMPH and the Environmental Protection Agency, which is responsible for protecting the environment, but to at least be aware of the consequences and causes of air pollution”, KALLXO told. com Miranda Mulafazliu from the Pristina municipality.

Mullafazliu finds it good if central institutions move towards improving air quality.

If it is achieved at least to have movement from central institutions in this direction, as well as the agreement signed in Paris in December 2015 concerning climate change, then this would be the success of the” project, Mullafazliu said.
According to the municipality, the largest pollutants are sulfhydrick H2S, sulphur dioxide, nitrogen dioxide and particles at 2.5 unjustlyg/m3, while the main cause of air pollution is busy traffic, now even the use of fuel used for heating, and the use of fuels in small businesses mainly those of food preparation.
The mullafazliu shows how pollution can be reduced.

<x00000 vehicle number reduction, by promoting public transportation use towards private, road network management, public transport improvement, promotion of clean technologies, promotion of cycling, growth of green”, are some of the measures that clean air in Pristina.

The mulaphazliu says that pollution can drop to lower levels even if the quality control of fuels is done and that businesses that use fuel are controlled and forced to equip themselves with LPC (improve ventilation and fuel quality).

While the Environment Ministry tells of KALLXO.com that two anti-air pollution projects are under way.

“In the function of improving air quality currently addressing improving the situation through two donor projects. One support comes from the Japanese Government for International Co-operation and the other within the framework of the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC)”, respectively, the ministry said.

The ministry co-operation with the Pristina municipality, as well as with all other central and local institutions, considers it very good.
The Environment Ministry says it has called for implementation of the Administrative Monitoring Guides for Air Downloads from mobile sources or motor vehicles, but also increasing the quality control of derivatives.

The Environment Protection Agency in Kosovo publishes daily and monthly reports of air quality monitoring.

KA LLXO.com has written that the National Institute of Public Health has conducted a research into the effects of air pollution on the health of Pristina citizens, where it turns out there are high numbers of polluted air sufferers.

Also, Environment and Spatial Planning Minister Albena Resiti had said before the Parliamentary Commission for Agriculture and Environment that improving air and environment conditions are among its priorities.

Minister Resitij has decided to cut off the use of coal as fuel for heating in two Pristina municipality nests.