Air pollution worse than admitted, says Greenpeace

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Air pollution in notoriously smoggy Hong Kong is three times worse than the government admits, Greenpeace claimed yesterday.

The environmental pressure group said the air pollution index is out of date and giving misleadingly low readings about the levels of pollutants in Hong Kong's air.

Greenpeace said if new World Health Organization (WHO) standards were applied, the readings on Wednesday would be more than three times higher than official government figures.

Hong Kong uses an air pollution index which operates on a scale of one to 500. The highest ever reading was just over 200, recorded in September.

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