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A study finds stacking bricks differently could help this country fight air pollution
Bangladesh suffers from extreme air pollution, but a new study shows the brick industry can make small changes to have a big effect on the country's smog problem.
toggle caption Ahmed Salahuddin/NurPhoto via Getty Images/NurPhoto During the dry winter months in Bangladesh, thousands of workers shovel millions of tons of coal into kilns across the country. "It's a lot of black smoke, impacting the workers and nearby villagers, but also the overall air quality of the region," said Sameer Maithel, an engineer with Greentech Knowledge Solutions, a consulting firm in Delhi, India. "This is wonderful evidence of how simple low cost interventions can have a big impact on energy use," said William Checkley, an epidemiologist at Johns Hopkins University who wasn't involved in the study.
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