Dozens of air pollution monitoring stations are to be put in place across Aberdeen to track harmful emissions.
Aberdeen has more than a dozen areas that fail to meet legal air pollution standards as set by the European Air Quality Directive.
Now a new project by the Code the City group aims to install 50 scientific monitors across the city.
A statement released by the group read: “Partnering with community groups, Aberdeen University and 57 North Hacklab, we are working on a long term project to build and deploy community-built, and hosted, sensors for (pollution particles).
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“We aim to have 50 of these in place in the next few months, across Aberdeen.
“The first significant milestone of this will be the community workshop we are holding on February 16-17.”
In November, it was revealed that 13 locations within the heart of the city still breach limits set out by the European Air Quality Directive.
However, city leaders have made significant strides in their efforts to raise air quality standards with many streets falling from the Friends of the Earth list of worst offenders.
The council has a masterplan detailing improvement methods – including banning traffic in certain areas and increasing pedestrianisation.
As part of Scottish Government plans, low emission zones (LEZs) would be introduced into several cities including Aberdeen to drive down air pollution.
Glasgow became the first Scottish city to introduce a “low emission zone (LEZ)” this month, and is due to be followed by Edinburgh, Dundee and Aberdeen next year.
Guy Ingerson, of the Aberdeen Greens, welcomed the plan.
He said: “We fully support this initiative and hope communities across the city will join in.
“We also hope that this project will focus minds in Aberdeen City Council. Funding for LEZs must be applied for. Clean air saves lives.”
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