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Your school nameAir Awareness Week
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What is Idling?What is Idling?
Idling is letting an engine run when the vehicle isn’t going anywhere, like when you are:
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Waiting to pick someone up at Waiting to pick someone up at school…school…
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Waiting at a drive-through Waiting at a drive-through window…window…
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Letting the car Letting the car ‘‘warm upwarm up’’ in the in the drivewaydriveway
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So, being So, being ‘‘Idle FreeIdle Free’’ means:means:Turning the engine OFF when you won’t be
driving for 10 seconds
or more
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Why not idle?Why not idle?Idling is bad for
everyone’s health
Driving warms up an engine faster and better than idling does
Eliminating 5 minutes of idling a day can save $30 to $60 a year
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Why not idle?Why not idle?Idling is bad for
everyone’s health
Driving warms up an engine faster and better than idling does
Eliminating 5 minutes of idling a day can save $30 to $60 a year
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Why not idle?Why not idle?Idling is bad for
everyone’s health
Driving warms up an engine faster and better than idling does
Eliminating 5 minutes of idling a day can save $30 to $60 a year
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Why not idle?Why not idle?Idling is bad for
everyone’s health
Driving warms up an engine faster and better than idling does
Eliminating 5 minutes of idling a day can save $30 to $60 a year
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Why not idle?Why not idle?It wastes moneyIt gets you no whereIt’s bad for our lungs
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More than More than 50% of 50% of
UtahUtah’’s air s air pollution pollution
comes from comes from vehiclesvehicles
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Almost ALL of Our Pollution Almost ALL of Our Pollution Comes From Comes From BurningBurning FuelsFuels
55% cars and trucks
20% large industry17% commercial8% household
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ItIt’’s Especially Bad for Kids Especially Bad for Kid’’s s LungsLungs
Children are outside playing more than adults
Children have faster respiratory rates than adults
Children breathe in 20% to 50% more air, and more air pollution, than adults
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ItIt’’s Especially Bad for Kids Especially Bad for Kid’’s s LungsLungs
Children are outside playing more than adults
Children have faster respiratory rates than adults
Children breathe in 20% to 50% more air, and more air pollution, than adults
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ItIt’’s Especially Bad for Kids Especially Bad for Kid’’s s LungsLungs
Children are outside playing more than adults
Children have faster respiratory rates than adults
Children breathe in 20% to 50% more air, and more air pollution, than adults
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Do you know someone with Do you know someone with asthma?asthma?
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Over 72,000 Utah kids have Over 72,000 Utah kids have asthmaasthma
about 8% of all Utahns have asthma
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Are Asthma and Air Are Asthma and Air Pollution Connected?Pollution Connected?
Air pollution makes asthma worse
Evidence suggests that air pollution can cause asthma.
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Asthma is the Asthma is the most common most common chronic illnesschronic illness in children in children
and the cause of and the cause of most most school absencesschool absences..
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Different asthma rates Different asthma rates along I-15 corridoralong I-15 corridor
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Higher asthma rates along Higher asthma rates along I-15I-15
Utah and national average comparable at 8.5%, though some Utah communities higher rates than average.
Source: Utah Department of
Health
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Higher asthma rates along Higher asthma rates along I-15I-15
◦Woods Cross and North Salt Lake – 16.2%
◦Riverdale and South Ogden – 15.8%
◦Salt Lake City – 13%◦South Ogden – 12.9%
Source: Utah Department of Health
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WhatWhat’’s going on s going on when the air is when the air is bad?bad?
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Sometimes our air is Sometimes our air is clean…clean…
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Other days, itOther days, it’’s yucky…s yucky…
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What is air pollution?What is air pollution?Air pollution is anything that makes our air dirty or less healthy to breathe.
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Where does air pollution Where does air pollution come from?come from?55% cars and
trucks20% large
industry17% commercial8% household
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OZONEInvisible!
PM 2.5Tiny particles that
look like a gross blanket over our
valley
Utah has two basic typesUtah has two basic types of air pollution of air pollution
SUMMERTIME WINTERTIME
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OZONE is good up high…OZONE is good up high…
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……and bad down lowand bad down low
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Ozone over-exposure can Ozone over-exposure can cause:cause:
LUNG IRRITATIONWheezingCoughingPain when taking a
deep breathDifficulty breathing
when playing outdoors
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Ozone over-exposure can Ozone over-exposure can cause:cause:
LUNG IRRITATIONWheezingCoughingPain when taking a
deep breathDifficulty breathing
when playing outdoors
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Ozone over-exposure can Ozone over-exposure can cause:cause:
LUNG IRRITATIONWheezingCoughingPain when taking a
deep breathDifficulty breathing
when playing outdoors
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Ozone over-exposure can Ozone over-exposure can cause:cause:
LUNG IRRITATIONWheezingCoughingPain when taking a
deep breathDifficulty breathing
when playing outdoors
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Ozone over-exposure can Ozone over-exposure can cause:cause:
LUNG IRRITATIONWheezingCoughingPain when taking a
deep breathMakes it hard to play
outside
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Winter time pollution: Winter time pollution: PM 2.5PM 2.5
‘PM’ stands for Particulate Matter
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PM 2.5PM 2.5
Includes tiny things like: ◦Soot, from chimneys
◦Exhaust, from tailpipes
◦Dust, from plowing
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When you go up a canyon in the When you go up a canyon in the winter, winter,
you can see the PM 2.5 belowyou can see the PM 2.5 below
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PM 2.5 is dangerous PM 2.5 is dangerous because because
it is it is veryvery small smallPM 2.5 is so
small, it can pass through our lungs, into our blood
This is why school kids have to stay in on “Red Air Days”
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One of these tiny dots is the size of
PM 2.5, compared to a
dust particle and human hair
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WHAT CAN WE DO TO WHAT CAN WE DO TO HELP?HELP?
Protect our healthProtect our healthMake less Make less
pollutionpollution
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Remember Remember that a lot of that a lot of UtahUtah’’s air s air pollution pollution
comes from comes from vehicles?vehicles?
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Help remind drivers to idle less
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If the car isnIf the car isn’’t moving for how t moving for how long?long?
_____ seconds
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If the car isnIf the car isn’’t moving for how t moving for how long?long?
Ten seconds of idling uses more gas than
turning off and restarting the car
10 seconds
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What can we do to help?What can we do to help?If possible,
◦Carpool◦Ride a bike◦Walk to school
Don’t drive, or drive less, especially on bad air days
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What can we do to help?What can we do to help?
Use less energy
Turn things off when they’re not in use
Most of Utah’s power comes from
coal fired power plants
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What can we do to help?What can we do to help?Know what the air is now:
www.airquality.utah.gov
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What can we do to help?What can we do to help?
Ask your parents and teacher to sign up for air quality alerts by
email at the same website: www.airquality.utah.gov
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What can we do to help?What can we do to help?With your class or family, make a plan
for how you’ll protect your health and our air on bad air days at: www.
breatheutah.org/emergency-plan
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You can make a differenceYou can make a difference• Remind drivers to be Idle Free• Carpool• Walk• Bike• Don’t go when the air is bad• Turn things off when not using• Check the air at airquality.utah.gov• Get emails when the air is bad• Then use your plan from breatheutah.org
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www.breatheutah.orgwww.breatheutah.org