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Pollution Time-Out

Pollution in Sports

What can we do?

For my first few blog entries I had focused on how certain sports contributed to environmental pollution, whereas my recent entries have focused on how air pollution can impact sporting events and athletes. This week shall be more introspective, as I consider how the way we consume sports contributes to pollution. Even as organisers of…

Making Outdoor Air Safe for Sports

Following my entries on the ambiguity of determining air quality and the impacts of air pollution on athletes, we are now left with the solution: how have nations and other actors attempted to restore air quality? When it comes to transboundary pollution, tackling the source directly can be tricky owing to the lack of jurisdiction…

Follow-up: (Micro)plastic Pollution

In my blog post on hiking, I had identified microplastics as a direct consequence of litter pollution. According to the U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), microplastics are broadly defined to be small plastic pieces that are less than 5mm in diameter, and are considered to be a Contaminant of Emerging Concern (CEC) due…

Follow-up: Noise Pollution

In my previous blog post, I had briefly covered the detrimental impacts of the noise pollution produced by F1 races. While F1 is not the only noise-polluting sport, today’s blog entry is not meant to identify all instances of noise pollution in sporting events. Rather, I will be focusing on noise pollution itself – what…

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