• Boysen® KNOxOUT® is the first air cleaning paint in the world with CristalActiv photocatalytic technology for earth-friendly coatings. KNOxOUT has specialized air cleaning titanium dioxide (TiO2) which uses light energy to transform water vapor into free radicals that break down NOx and VOC molecules into harmless substances.
• Painting a surface with KNOxOUT effectively transforms it to an air purifying device that continuously cleans the air in the presence of light and humidity.
Dangerous Skies?
• According to the Philippine Environment Monitor, a joint report of the World Bank and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), there are close to 5,000 premature deaths per year in Metro Manila due to diseases from exposure to polluted air. This accounts for 12% of all deaths in the metropolis, the highest in any urban area in the country.
• 98% of residents in Manila are affected by air pollution and 50% want to move to a less polluted place.
• 71% of Filipinos believe that air quality has worsened over the past year.
• According to the World Health Organization, 3 million people die each year from the effects of air pollution, three times more than the 1 million who die each year in automobile accidents.
• A study by the European Commission calculated that air pollution is responsible for 310,000 premature deaths per year and reduces life expectancy by an average of almost nine months across the European Union.
• According to the same study, every European on average takes half a day off a year due to illnesses linked to air pollution - costing the economy more than 80 billion euros.
• In the United States, about 4 percent of deaths can be attributed to air pollution, equaling deaths from breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.
• A study in Europe by APHEIS (Air Pollution and Health: A European Information System) found that even very small cuts in pollution can benefit health.
The effects of air pollution on children are even worse:
• Children spend more time outdoors and are more active outdoors than adults. For their body size, children breathe faster and inhale several times more air – polluted air - than adults.
• Studies in California found that children living near freeways were more likely to have reduced lung function and develop asthma and bronchitis symptoms.
• A study in New York found that mothers who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution during pregnancy had children with lower IQs.
• According to the Philippine Environment Monitor, a joint report of the World Bank and Department of Environment and Natural Resources (DENR), there are close to 5,000 premature deaths per year in Metro Manila due to diseases from exposure to polluted air. This accounts for 12% of all deaths in the metropolis, the highest in any urban area in the country.
• 98% of residents in Manila are affected by air pollution and 50% want to move to a less polluted place.
• 71% of Filipinos believe that air quality has worsened over the past year.
• According to the World Health Organization, 3 million people die each year from the effects of air pollution, three times more than the 1 million who die each year in automobile accidents.
• A study by the European Commission calculated that air pollution is responsible for 310,000 premature deaths per year and reduces life expectancy by an average of almost nine months across the European Union.
• According to the same study, every European on average takes half a day off a year due to illnesses linked to air pollution - costing the economy more than 80 billion euros.
• In the United States, about 4 percent of deaths can be attributed to air pollution, equaling deaths from breast cancer and prostate cancer combined.
• A study in Europe by APHEIS (Air Pollution and Health: A European Information System) found that even very small cuts in pollution can benefit health.
The effects of air pollution on children are even worse:
• Children spend more time outdoors and are more active outdoors than adults. For their body size, children breathe faster and inhale several times more air – polluted air - than adults.
• Studies in California found that children living near freeways were more likely to have reduced lung function and develop asthma and bronchitis symptoms.
• A study in New York found that mothers who were exposed to higher levels of air pollution during pregnancy had children with lower IQs.
3 comments:
Wow! This is the type of innovations we need. Imagine a paint that can clean air. How cool is that?
Thank you for sharing.
nice article. I won't post a similar entry about this hehehe XD
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