Air quality level, emission sources and control strategies in Bursa/Turkey

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In parallel with rapidly increasing population and number of motor vehicles, irregular urbanization, and un-planned industrialization, air pollution has reached dangerous levels in developing cities. Various industries suchas textile, automotive, chemical, rubber and plastic industries are located in Bursa. In addition, the regionreceives a lot of migration and there is an intensive air pollution problem due to dense urbanization. The airquality monitoring station results showed that the PM10and NOxare the main pollutants reducing air quality inthe city. Despite the much efforts and regulations, air quality level has been getting worst year by year.Stakeholders were brought together to explore the true causes of non-blocking emissions, identify resource loadsand priorities, and develop solutions. The current level and variation of air pollutant concentrations dependingon years were presented to stakeholders. A survey and discussion were performed within the workshop, andconsequently; industry, transportation, heating and uncontrolled combustion activities came front. Especiallythe fact that the industry is located in the city and the transportation network of the city is inadequate hasemerged as the main source of air pollution problem. In order to develop effective solution, it was emphasizedthat effective supervision should come to the forefront and new industrial facilities should not be established inthe regions in or near the city.