[9-22]Scientists say the pollution by a single HAMBURGER is more than a TRUCK
[p=30, 2, left][size=3]Anyone looking to cut out air pollution in their town may have to look no further than their local burger joint.[/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=3]A new study out of the University of California, Riverside, has found that commercial charbroilers – like the ones used in the country's fast food restaurants, are doing more harm to the air quality than an 18-wheeler.[/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=3]Researchers claim that the charbroilers send a staggering quantity of particulate matter into the ecosystem, more than any truck or factory smokestack.[/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=3][b]Scroll down for video[/b][/size][/p][size=3][attach]14660[/attach]
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[size=3][color=#000][font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif]Pollution on a sesame seed bun: Researchers claim that the charbroil grills that prepare hamburgers could be sending an incredible quantity of particulate matter into the air[/font][/color]
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[p=30, 2, left][size=3]Residents in a South Boston community believe those claims, and insist that they’re being smoked out of their own homes thanks to a new burger place in the neighborhood.[/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=3]Marie Madden, who lives across the street from the new Tasty Burger restaurant, [b]told the Boston Globe[/b][b]: 'It's just horrible. The smoke was just pouring out of the stack Saturday.'[/b][/size][/p]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][img=634,375]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-2206387-151E5064000005DC-112_634x375.jpg[/img][/size][p=30, 2, left][size=3]Burned: Emissions from commercial charbroilers, like the one seen here, are a very significant uncontrolled source of particulate matter, according to researchers[/size][/p][/font]
[p=30, 2, left][size=3]At a community meeting on Monday, restaurant owner David DuBois pledged to set up a high-tech air-scrubbing system that will block the smoke, according to the Globe.[/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=3]He told the paper: 'It [the system] takes out the particulate and from what I understand it will take the odor out and most of the smoke, if not all of it.[/size][/p][p=30, 2, left][size=3]'At the end of the day I believe this solution will solve the problem in a big way.'[/size][/p]
[font=Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif][size=3][img=634,385]http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2012/09/20/article-2206387-151E5295000005DC-819_634x385.jpg[/img][/size][p=30, 2, left][size=3]Trouble with trucks: An 18-wheeler diesel-engine truck would have to drive 143 miles on the freeway to put out the same mass of particles as a single hamburger patty, according to the UC Riverside study[/size][/p][/font]
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