Cork City clean air project seeks 1000 households to participate 

The project offers an opportunity for homes in Cork to contribute towards a goal of cleaner air for the city

Lord Mayor of Cork Cllr Deirdre Forde, with Lisa O'Grady and Sabrina Moore from An Taisce, in Cork's Shandon Quarter to launch the Clean Air Together citizen science project. Picture: Michael O'Sullivan/OSM

A recruitment drive is underway for 1,000 households in Cork City to take part in a major citizen science project, to monitor the city's air pollution.

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and An Taisce’s Environmental Education Unit launched an appeal on Monday, for people to sign up for the Clean Air Together Cork City project, which involves using a small monitoring device in the home to measure the air pollutant, nitrogen dioxide (NO2), throughout October.