One of the most common air pollutants that I have heard a lot about would be Carbon Monoxide (colorless, odorless gas that comes from combustion processes. It is mostly found in big cities where there are a lot of factories. It's also in the fire that's seen when you start a fire in your fireplace or turn on your stove.
Carbon Monoxide has a lot of health risks. Some of them include reducing the amount of oxygen that's delivered to the different organs in the body. When there's a lot of Carbon Monoxide in the air it can cause death. Other than the effects it has on us it has also been depleting the ozone layer little by little.
A way that has been used to mitigate the effects that Carbon Monoxide has on the environment was to reduce the number of cars on the highways especially going through the cities at certain times of the day. Also just starting a fire in your fireplace and starting your stove can produce Carbon Monoxide, so don't use you fireplace or stove a lot to minimize the amount of Carbon Monoxide you are inhaling.
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