The “cleaning” trees!

Why is this project happening?

Neath Port Talbot Local Service Board (LSB) is always trying to improve the air quality within the borough.

Who has set this project up?• The Project Team is

made up of officers from the Council, the Environment Agency, the Forestry Commission, the Countryside Council for Wales, and also has input from NPT Homes.

• The Team recognised that there is a particular need to focus on improving the air quality in the Margam and Taibach area of Port Talbot

PM10

What is PM10?

Where does PM10 come from?

• smoke, dirt and dustfrom factories, farming, and roads

• mold, spores, and pollen

Red shows the highest concentration PM10

Trees that can “clean” the air

Where are the trees being planted?

• Groeswen Playing Fields (also known as the Saltings) – strip of land bordering the embankment up the railway line – 35 standard trees and 500 whips;

• Open space at Tal y Wern and Pentre Wern – limited planting of 5 standard trees and one semi-mature tree;

• Tollgate Park – limited planting of 10 standard trees and one semi-mature tree at the south-eastern corner of the site;

• Beechwood Road – limited planting of 5 standard trees and one semi-mature tree opposite numbers 87 – 97 Beechwood Road;

• Dyffryn Upper Comprehensive school – two areas of the school grounds for planting of approximately 70 standard trees and 100 whips;

• Land adjacent to the new Harbour Way road and Tata Steel stores building – 400 whips.

What trees are being planted in Dyffryn?

ALDER

HAWTHORN

SILVER BIRCH

LIMEROWAN

How the trees “clean” the air?

• Leaves filter the air we breathe, absorbing harmful pollutants like sulphur dioxide and intercepting the damaging particulates in smoke and dust (PM10)

• Better still, over the course of a year just two trees can produce enough oxygen for a family of four.

• One in seven people in the UK are affected by lung disease ; by improving air quality trees actively fight life-threatening conditions.

We need you! Friday 8th March

• Get to Upper school!• Bring your wellies! • And a coat!• Come and plant a

tree!• Then have a piece of

cake!• Members of the local

community and Groes have been invited too!

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