This Artistic Solution Is Perfect To Reduce Air Pollution In India

Dhir Acharya - Aug 26, 2020

Trees are known for their power to clean the air. But if we cannot plant trees, we can paint them to help address air pollution in big cities.

Warsaw, Poland has got a new, unique public art project called Converse City Forests. The giant murals under this project look amazing but the best part is that they are beneficial for the environment thanks to a special pigment.

The mission of the project is “planting” trees in places they cannot grow, such as the building located next to the Politechnika metro station. A pair of local artists chose this building to design a giant mural that was painted with a unique pigment.

Artwork under the project Converse City Forests

They used photocatalytic paint to create the design, which is activated by light. It then breaks down pollutants in the atmosphere, turning them into harmless nitrates, which helps reduce pollution and improve air quality.

Converse explained the process as the following:

“This technology uses light energy to break down noxious air pollutants and convert them into harmless substances. Any surface coated with this paint becomes an active air-purifying surface that helps protect people from harmful gases.”

The murals are painted by expert muralists

The mural features smiling flowers rising among tall buildings. The mural also features the line “Create Together For Tomorrow” that perfectly embraces the project’s spirit. The mural was painted by expert muralists.

This mural has the cleaning power of 780 trees

Converse said that the mural can clean as much as 780 trees do. Ultimately, the project aims at making art equivalent to 3000 trees across several locations including Sydney, Bogota, Lima, Sao Paolo, among other cities to be announced.

The murals, despite not being the ultimate solution to clean the air, can be an aesthetic and friendly way to add to cleaning attempts in big cities like Delhi in India.