Tuesday, February 15, 2011

Trap: Codacons against the Lombardy Region

While Milan and Lombardy continue to "stifle" the excessive concentration of smog in the air, despite the rain and the repeated stop the cars, the region provides incentives for the installation of particulate filters on diesel vehicles, but already controversy. Codacons filed a complaint on the basis of an article of the Consumer Code, to establish any detrimental effects of this measure.

According to the Consumers' Association the filter would do more harm than good, because it would make only the finest dust, without degrading the Pm10 remove from the atmosphere. But how does this mechanism? The cerium oxide in the device means that the PM10 is agglomerino and are caught by the filter.

But for the Codacons this process does not end with the destruction of dust, but rather in a reduction in its size that would only make them more aggressive health. The association cites a witness of his own theory a very wide literature. The Regional Minister for the Environment, Marc Raimondi, said the accusations claiming that "the filters do not shred the powder, the cyclically accumulate and burn, making them harmless, thereby completing the path of proper fuel combustion.

Those who claim otherwise clearly wrong, proving he does not understand anything of their operation. " The commissioner then recalled that this type of technology is one of the best presently available to meet the new and more stringent emission standards imposed by the European motor (classes € 5 and € 6).

The European Commission itself, said Raimondi, supports its use with key institutions for fuel, "Europe and all developed countries of the world, from Japan and Switzerland, have introduced the use of particulate filters '.

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