Reasons for planting trees in New York City
Trees:
· Help to settle out, trap and hold particle pollutants (dust, ash, pollen and smoke) that can damage human lungs.
· Absorb CO2 and other dangerous gasses and, in turn, replenish the atmosphere with oxygen.
· Produce enough oxygen on each acre for 18 people every day.
· Absorb enough CO2 on each acre, over a year's time, to equal the amount you produce when you drive your car 26,000 miles. Trees remove gaseous pollutants by absorbing them through the pores in the leaf surface. Particulates are trapped and filtered by leaves, stems and twigs, and washed to the ground by rainfall.
· May reduce asthma in children ages four and five
· Asthma is the main reason kids under the age of 15 in New York City are hospitalized
· Asthma has soared 50 percent between the years 1980-2000; mostly in poor areas
· There are 300,000 kids in New York City living with Asthma
References
http://www.dnr.state.md.us/forests/publications/urban2.html
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7374078.stm
http://www.edf.org/health/air/new-york-heating-oil
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