Wildfire smoke - now extra toxic plumes from sun UV
Did you know just one of the many fires burning in Quebec is the size of an entire Canadian province (PEI), or large enough to stretch between the cities of Ottawa and Montreal or Toronto to Niagara Falls? Read on to learn more about why the smoke now smells like plastic and the health impact. 🧵 1/
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in reply to Jeff Gilchrist • • •Now benzene and formaldehyde are being created in the atmosphere from the smoke + UV radiation which happen to smell like plastic but are toxic and can have very adverse effects on human/animal health ( theweathernetwork.com/en/news/… ). H/T: @lisa_iannattone
You can learn more about formaldehyde here ( epa.gov/indoor-air-quality-iaq… ) and benzene here ( emergency.cdc.gov/agent/benzen… ).4/
Smelling plastic? Millions are in the path of toxic smoke plumes
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