Reflection on meeting

The Room: CERT Research & Innovation Centre

The Date of Meeting:  Tuesday 13th March

Present:

 Chairman: Mohammed Abdulla                                   H00214394

 Secretary: Abdulaziz Faez                                            H00210495

 Participants:

·         Abdulla Jaber                                                H00229972

·        Abdulla  Hussein                                           H00229909

Mohammed Abdulla started the meeting by introducing the problem we’ll discuss in the meeting which is the air pollution. Also, he introduced each member in the group to each other. Then he asked the participants to tell him the solution for the problem. He controlled the interview in a good way.

Abdulla Jaber started with the first solution which is using hybrid vehicles and he said that it will reduce the air pollution. Abdulla Hussein said it is a good idea but he thought that hybrid vehicles cost too much money, so it is difficult for all people to buy them. Mohammed Abdulla said I agree with Abdulla Hussein.

Mohammed Abdulla asked the participants about their idea of using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city. Abdulaziz said that is a good idea, because using buses will reduce using cars which will reduce harmful gases such as carbon dioxide. Abdulla Hussein and Abdulla Jaber agreed with that solution.

Abdulla Hussein said using underground metro is a good solution to reduce the pollution. Abdulla Jaber said it is a good idea but it will cost too much to build it and Abdulaziz added it will take a long time to build. Mohammed agreed with both Abdulla Jaber and Abdulaziz.

Mohammed asked them about their idea of recycling newspapers and plastic bags. Abdulla Hussein said it is a good idea because plastic bags have harmful compounds. Abdulla Jaber said recycling is essentially done by the government.

Abdulla Jaber said that there should be rules for factories to reduce the use of harmful gases. Abdulla Hussein agreed about that point and said that factories should be in areas away from cities. Mohammed said it is a big problem because it causes something called acid rain which can destroy the environment.

The participants were so active and they have the ability of answering anything that was asked by the chairman. Also, they gave the chairman good ideas and they supported their ideas with good explanations. The Secretary was interacting with the members by giving his ideas about the solutions, taking the time of the starting and ending of the meeting. Also, he recorded the meeting and wrote about the agenda items that were discussed.

The solutions that all members agreed will reduce the air pollution are:

1)      Using buses instead of cars for people who live in cities.

2)      Putting rules that limit the factories from using harmful gases.

3)      Recycling the newspapers and plastic bags.

Air pollution ( Agenda and time taker)

The problem:  Air Pollution

The Room: CERT Research & Innovation Centre

The Date of Meeting:  Tuesday 13th March

Start and End times: 9:05 – 9:30

Group Members:

-         Chairman: Mohammed Abdulla                                   H00214394

-         Minutes taker: Abdulaziz Faez                                     H00210495

-         Participants:

·        Abdulla Jaber                                                       H00229972

·        Abdulla  Hussein                                                  H00229909

Causes of Air pollution:

a-     Industries’ chemical waste.

b-    Burning trash and garbage.

c-     Exhaust emissions

d-    Deforestation

e-      Destroying the green environment

f-      Pesticides

g-     Smoking in a closed area in a small public place

Main effects of air pollution:

a-     Acid rain

b-    Increase in the gas CO2

c-     Global warming: kills the ozone layer which will allow heat and direct sunlight to enter the atmosphere, making skin diseases and increasing the temperature.

d-    Melting the North Pole: which means that the sea level gets higher every year, which could damage some peninsulas and coastal cities.

e-     Lung diseases and breathing problems due to increase in CO2 gas.

Agenda:

-         Convince people to use hybrid vehicles.

-         Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

-          Underground metro.

-         Issuance of rules that limit the industries.

-         Recycling & re-use of newspapers and plastic bags.

Mohammed Abdulla the chairman of the group started the meeting at 9:05 by introducing himself and the members of the group. In the first part of the meeting Mohammed Abdulla asked the participants what are the causes of air pollution? Abdulla Jabber said the chemical waste is the main reason for air pollution and Abdulla Hussein added, the chemical waste also affects human health.

Mohammed Abdulla mentioned deforestation, then Abdulaziz asked the meaning of deforestation and Mohammed Abdulla explained it which means cutting forest trees. Abdulla Jabber and Abdulla Hussein agreed that is a big problem and it affects the air.

Abdulla Jabber said that cars' exhausts also affect the air, because car emissions have a lot of CO2 which is dangerous and everyone agreed with that. Abdulla Hussein mentioned that smoking is also one of air pollution causes but Abdulla Jabber didn’t agree with what Abdulla Hussein said; he said that it is not a big issue but it's a dangerous for people and it is bad for their health.

Mohammed Abdulla the chairman mentioned that the acid rain is one of the results of air pollution but Mr. Hedley didn’t know what is that and Abdulla Hussein explained to him what it is. Abdulla Hussein said the CO2 increased in the earth and this is dangerous; because of CO2 the temperature of the weather is increasing and scientists call that Global Warming. Because of global warming or temperature increasing, ice in the North Pole melts so seas and oceans water rises up so islands and coastal cities will drown after some decades. Mr. Hedley wanted proof of water rising and Abdulla Jabber said Maldives Islands. Mr. Hedley said that he went on a fishing trip on a sunny say and he said he saw a yellow fog around Abu Dhabi city; Abdulla Jabber said it is pollution and all of that because of car emissions. 

 

1.     Convince people to use hybrid vehicles.

Abdulla Jaber said it is a good idea to reduce the pollution in the air but there is a problem which is hybrid cars are expensive and the spare parts of these vehicles are not available.

Abdulla Hussain said it is a good idea.

2.     Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

Mohammed Abdulla said using the buses is a very good idea to reduce the CO2 in the air by reducing using cars.

Abdulziz said it is a good idea but the problem is that buses are not comfortable.

Abdulla Jabber and Abdulla Hussein agreed with Mohammed Abdulla.

3.     Underground metro.

Abdulla Hussein said it is not a good idea because a metro still issued smoke, was expensive and it requires years to be built.

Abdulla Jaber said it was to solve and reduce the traffic not air pollution.

4.     Issuance of rules that limit the industries.

Abdulla Jabber said that factories must obey the rules because factories are the biggest source of toxics gases.

Mohammed Abdulla mentioned that acid rain comes from toxics gases and industrial waste.

Abdulla Hussein agreed with what they said.

5.     Recycling and re-use of newspaper and plastic bags.

Abdulla Husain said recycling is a good method because instead of burning materials that cause damage to the environment we recycle them and use them again; also Abdulla Jabber agreed with that.

All the members of the group agreed that some of these solutions are successful to reduce the pollution in the air:

1-    Recycling used materials.

2-    Using buses instead of cars for people who live in the city.

3-    Making strict rules to limit the pollution of the chemical waste that results from the factories.

Also, spread the awareness in the society by advertisements and telling them the effects of air pollution.