Summary Impact of Brick kiln on Environment health of workers and children
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M.phil
Institution
Fatima Jinnah Women University Pakistan
Impacts of pollution caused by brick kiln sources and emissions on environment, human health especially on workers in the industry and on children health
For thousands more year, bricks have been utilized as an indispensable part in building and
development in view of its grounded properties like extraordinary solidness, high strength, low
expenses, etc. People previously delivered bricks back to 10,000 BCE as followed (Zhang et al., 2018).
Fired bricks were likewise utilized by antiquated people, groups of the Egyptian and Mesopotamian, to
fabricate burial places and sanctuaries. The Designs, shape and weight of the blocks have gone through
various verifiable changes, however making process has gone through extremely restricted changes
(Javid, 2006)
Pakistan is the third largest country in the world when it comes to brick production. China, India,
Pakistan and Bangladesh produce 75% of the world's brick production ((Baum 2007).Across the
Pakistan, more than 20,000 brick kilns are being operated. These bricks ovens contribute generally to
poor air quality and poor local area wellbeing through the country Conventional Brick kiln industry
filled by coal is a wellspring of dangerous discharge, made out of fine residue particles, Hydrocarbons,
Sulfur Dioxide (SO2), Oxides of Nitrogen (NOx), Fluoride compounds, Carbon Monoxide (CO),
Limited quantity of cancer-causing dioxins, Aldehydes and Free radicals (K. J. Robert et al, 1996).
Processes Emissions Reasons References
Soil Digging and PM, CO2, CO, SOx and Burning of fuels and, (Rajarathnam et al,
Clay Preparation NOx soil excavation 2014)
Labor-intensive suspended particulate Most brick kilns used (Skinder et al. 2014)
Molding, Sun matter by workers to complete
Drying, Filling, and these processes
unloading Kiln manually
Transportation PM, CO2, CO, SOx and Transporting bricks to (Maheshwari, H.,
NOx et other necessary Jain, K., 2017)
locations, maximum
emissions due to
burning fuel during
transport
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