In Pljevlja this morning at 10:XNUMX a.m. high air pollution was measured, and the presence of harmful substances in the air was measured by instruments of the Environmental Protection Agency during the previous night.
The concentration of PM 10 particles measured this morning at 10 am was 449.3 micrograms per cubic meter, which is nine times more than the permitted daily concentration of these harmful substances for human health.
Significantly higher concentrations of PM 2,5 particles were also registered, which are even more harmful to human health because, according to experts, thanks to their small size, they are able to penetrate deep into the lungs and can even enter the bloodstream.
The value of these harmful substances in the air at 10 this morning was 402,2 micrograms per cubic meter, which is almost 16 times higher than the target daily value of 25 micrograms per cubic meter. At the same time, sulfur dioxide values were 85,7 micrograms per cubic meter.
An hour earlier, the concentration of PM 10 particles was 398 micrograms per cubic meter, and at 11 this morning, the concentration of pollutants dropped to 219 micrograms per cubic meter.
The president of the Breznica Ecological Society, Milorad Mitrović, told "Vijesta" that the health of the people of Pljevlja has been at risk for a long time due to heavy pollution, but that no one is doing anything to improve the situation.
He called on the Prime Minister of Montenegro, Milojko Spajić, who grew up in Pljevlja, to put the solution of air pollution in his hometown at the top of his priorities.
He believes that a serious state should have measures even in emergency situations, but above all preventive and measurable plans, how to reduce the consequences of air pollution.
"It has been absent so far despite numerous warnings," Mitrović said.
He said that as a matter of urgency, the Government should ban the burning of coal in the households of Pljevlja and that by the end of the year, he will send an initiative to do so.
Only in the city's boiler house, in Skerlićeva Street in the city center, which is marked as one of the biggest polluters, about two thousand tons of coal are burned annually.
The Pljevlja Thermal Power Plant burns that amount in ten hours.
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