Because the pollution is very high for several days now, the City of Skopje issued measures of first degree due to exceeding the limit values for particles smaller than 10 micrometers (PM10).
Measures for citizens include limiting movement outdoors only when necessary, not to use cars without greater need and to use public means of transport. They appeal when heating their homes, citizens not to use waste such as waste oil, lacquered and painted scrap wood and furniture, styrofoam, plastic, rubber or synthetic materials.
The City of Skopje recommends citizens not to ventilated rooms which they are occupying, not to use devices for heating and cooking of fossil fuels, and it recommends young children, pregnant women, the chronically ill and elderly people no to go out in the open.
They warned to postpone all activities with corrosive chemicals, adhesives, paints, varnishes, pesticides that pollute the air in the premises, drivers of heavy cargo vehicles to comply with traffic signals for driving through the city, trucks not to be used if their discharge of waste gases is not regulated.
City of Skopje invites managers of construction sites to wash the tires of the trucks before letting them out of the construction site, and when the material is transported from the construction excavation, it should be covered with a tarpaulin. They also appeal to businessmen to perform technological processes with extreme caution and avoid anything that is not necessary, but may affect air quality in the city, as well as to collaborate with enhanced inspection of the Inspectorate of the City of Skopje.
Ambient air pollution in Skopje, Tetovo and Kichevo in 2 pm was at a very high level. The monitoring stations Bitola 2 and Kochani detected high level of cancerous PM10 particles, while its level is moderate in Veles and Kavadarci.
High level of PM2.5 particles is also registered in Skopje municipalities Centar and Karposh, high level of carbon monoxide is registered in Lische, while nitrogen dioxide is registered in Gazi Baba.
Last night, the inhabitants of Skopje suburb Lisiche were breathing poison. There, the amount of PM10 particles in 10 pm was 700 micrograms per cubic meter, which is 14 times more than the allowed 50 micrograms.
