As per the latest report, approximately 70% of plastic manufacturing plants in the Houston area violate the Clean Air Act, and additionally, 20% do not meet Disaster Planning Requirements, leading to a necessity for more stringent air pollution regulations. This year numerous cases of fires, explosions, and air pollution emissions at chemical industries demonstrate a crucial increase of poor air quality and safety risks.

Approximately 90 factories in the Houston area manufacture plastics or plastic components, but two-thirds of them have not met air pollution control standards over the past few years. Regarding overall air pollution produced, the plastic sector emits nearly 60,000 tons of potentially harmful pollutants, accounting for 22% of total emissions from all industries in Houston; consequently, this number is expected to increase.

Currently, it is uncertain to what extent air pollution will rise in the Houston area due to new projects in the plastics industry. Certain permit documents, under which an extra 15,000 tons of air pollutants are permitted annually, can be found for one-third of the newly established plastic companies.

It is a common case when people in the Houston area have to breathe fumes of poor air quality required for air treatment and suffer the health consequences because of explosions, fires, and air pollution emissions. The policy of air pollution control became a responsibility of local decision-makers, because people did not rely on Texas and federal regulators in this matter.

It is necessary to solve the problem of poor air quality by “issuing strong air pollution control permits for all new or expanded plastics plants, imposing significant fines for pollution violations, and requiring companies to invest in better maintenance and emergency planning to prevent fires, explosions, and other disasters.”

The following air pollution control measures promote improving air quality and reducing toxic emissions from the plastic industry:

• the enforcement of federal disaster planning requirements by EPA and Texas to make plastics factories prepared for such kinds of accidents;
• the penalty for air polluters due to their shortcomings;
• stricter punishment for repeated violators of air pollution control;
• the development of a more effective air pollution control system;
• the use of air treatment devices at plastic factories to improve industrial air quality such as wet air scrubbing. If you would like to make your contribution to change the situation, Redwood Technology offers a cutting-edge Multi-Vortex scrubber. 

Multi-Vortex scrubbing system applies water contaminated with dust, sand, and even small rocks to capture particulate matter, different types of dust and some gases from the air. Multi-Vortex Scrubbers are replacing conventional scrubbing systems in ore and coal mining widely.

Finally, Multi-Vortex scrubber offers the following benefits that include:

compact size;

• omnivore, to be more precise, this wet air scrubber can treat highly mineralized water or that could contain sand, even small rocks;
• eco-friendship;
• low-maintenance. 

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