Air is getting cleaner: the only hotspot is Ludwigsburg

Created: 01/12/2022, 3:15 PM

Houses can be seen in the Stuttgart basin behind smoke from a chimney.

© Marijan Murat / mut / dpa / archive image

The air pollution with nitrogen and fine dust in Baden-Württemberg cities fell last year.

According to a preliminary evaluation by the State Agency for the Environment in Baden-Württemberg, the air quality has improved significantly in all of the larger cities.

The president of the state institute, Eva Bell, said on Wednesday that the air had become cleaner not only in Stuttgart.

Stuttgart - "In the previously highly polluted areas in Freiburg, Reutlingen, Mannheim and Heilbronn, the concentrations of nitrogen dioxide continued to decrease in the past year and are now well below the limit value."

Schlossstrasse in Ludwigsburg remains the only hotspot in the country where the nitrogen limit of 40 micrograms per cubic meter is exceeded.

There the air is polluted by four micrograms of nitrogen oxide more than allowed.

In 2020, the limit was also exceeded on Stuttgart Talstrasse and Pragstrasse.

In 2021, the values ​​there were also below this value at 39 and 38 micrograms.

According to the opinion of Transport Minister Winfried Hermann (Greens), the success is due to numerous measures for air pollution control.

"In particular, the partial traffic bans for older diesel vehicles without modern, functioning exhaust gas cleaning, have driven the renewal of the vehicle fleet," said the Green politician.

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Fine dust pollution in the air will also continue to decrease in 2021.

The limit values ​​of an average of 50 micrograms per cubic meter per day have been complied with across the country since 2018.

The values ​​may be exceeded on a maximum of 35 days.

Because the maximum values ​​and the number of days exceeded in Stuttgart have also fallen significantly, according to the Ministry of Transport, the ban on log fires in Stuttgart will be suspended from mid-April.

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