Landscape & Urban Design Issue 38 2019 | Page 58

HIGHLIGHTING BRITAIN’S TOXIC AIR SCANDAL HOW C4’S DISPATCHES & HEDGES DIRECT REDUCED AIR POLLUTION BY 53% Pollution from traffic fumes and The effects are highly detrimental Lancashire based company Hedges particulate matter is reaching high leading to narrowing of airways, Direct, specialist online suppliers and illegal levels on a regular basis prevalence to lung diseases such of hedging and garden plants, with across the country with one in three as asthma and even affected brain partner Green-tech Ltd, recently children growing up exposed to unsafe development. But what is the solution? supplied Channel 4’s Dispatches levels of air pollution. 58 Landscape & Urban Design Issue 38 2019 programme with Ivy Screens and