According to the last report, about 70% of plastic factories in Houston region breaks the Clean Air Act, herewith, 20% of them fail in comply with Disaster Planning Requirements, resulting in the need for stricter air pollution control. 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.

It should be noted that there are about 90 factories that produce plastics or plastic features in Houston regions, while two-thirds of them failed air pollution control requirements over the last several years. As for total air pollution emitted, the plastic industry releases virtually 60.000 tons of potentially health-damaging pollutants that are 22% of total emissions from all types of industries in Houston, herewith, this figure will continue to rise.

Unfortunately, nowadays it remains unclear how much air pollution will increase in the Houston region because of new plastics industry projects. Nevertheless, specific permit documents, according to which additional 15.000 tons of air pollutants are allowed every year, are available for a third of the new 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. Nevertheless, 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.

Thus, it is necessary to solve the problem of bad 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.”

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

• the enforcement of federal disaster planning requirements by EPA and Texas to make plastics factories prepared for such kinds of accidents;
• the punishment of air polluters for the failure;
• stricter punishment for repeated violators of air pollution control;
• the development of more effective air pollution control system;
• the use of air treatment devices at plastic factories to improve industrial air quality, one of which is wet air scrubbing. If you would like to make your contribution to change the situation, you should choose a new type of wet scrubbers that is Multi-Vortex scrubber. 

Multi-Vortex scrubbing system could apply 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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