Efect of Glass Industries on Air Quality in the Bangle City, Firozabad YOGESH KUSHAWAH 1 *, SHANI KUMAR BHARTIY 2 , BARSHA SONI 1 , KAMAL PRAKASH 1 1 Department of Zoology, J. S. University, Kanthari, Shikohabad, India 2 Department of Zoology, Babasaheb Bhimrao Ambedkar University, Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh, India Article Chronicle: Received: 04-Jun-2021; Accepted: 06-Jul-2021 ABSTRACT Air pollution is a serious environmental concern for many cities in India such as Delhi, Mumbai, Kolkata, Agra, Kanpur, and Lucknow. The aim of this study was to access the trends of ambient air pollutants in Asiatic Bangle city Firozabad and Agra during 2016 to 2020. Air pollution data were collected from website of Uttar Pradesh Pollution Control Board for January 2016 to July 2020. Result revealed that the forecast regression gradually increase over the forecast period of December 2021 for every study site and all pollutants Particulate Matter 10 (PM 10 ) 274, air quality index (AQI) 226, Nitrogen dioxide (NO 2 ) 30, Sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) 8, and except SO 2 of Raja Ka Tal. The values of Forecast following regression are (r = 0.88), (r = 0.79), (r = 0.78), and (r = 0.79), respectively, at Centre for Development of Glass Industry. In Tilak Nagar PM 10 275 (r = 0.88), AQI 230 (r =0.79), NO 2 30 (r = 0.165), SO 2 9 (r = 0.728), etc., PM 10 was the most efective pollutant was recorded among the study sites during the study period. KEY WORDS Air pollution, Air quality Index, Bangle city, NO 2 , PM 10 , SO 2 *Corresponding author: E-Mail: yogeshkushwah27@gmail.com INTRODUCTION Air pollution is a serious environmental concern all around the globe caused by the intensifed process of deforestation, urbanization, and industrialization. The Industrial revolution, rapid urbanization brought about a large increase in energy consumption. At present, approximately 50% of the people in the world live in the cities and urban areas and other half in rural areas, especially in developing countries and are exposed to higher levels of air pollutants (Salvi and Barnes, 2009; Guttikunda et al., 2012). As a result globally, 1.1 billion people sufer due to unhealthy air in their life span (UNEP, 2002). The many diferent ways are involving to infuences air pollution in the atmosphere, such as industrial manufacturing, dust from trafc, smoke, exhaust from vehicles, thermoelectric power plants solid waste-burning, and fossils fuels burning (Williams and Matt, 2016; Popescu and Ionel, 2010), are carbon monoxide (CO), sulfur dioxide (SO 2 ) Nitrogen oxide (NO 2 ), volatile organic compounds, Ozone (O 3 ), and tiny solid particles-Particulate Matter (PM) (Agrawal and Singh, 2000), besides, glass industry is the main source of photochemical smog and suspended particulate emitting in an urban and rural environment (Pathak and Rana, 2011) as a result these pollutants enter in the blood of birds (and other vertebrates) through lungs, cause damage to be lungs by altering the normal values of blood (Pathak and Rana, 2011). Four major atomospheric components are air pollutants, PM10, PM2.5, nitrogen dioxide, sulfur dioxide, and ozone (WHO, 2005, Nigam et al., 2015 and CPCB, 2012, 2014). Long-term exposure to air pollutants increases the risk of respiratory illnesses such as allergies, asthma, chronic obstructive pulmonary disease, and lung cancer (Arbex et al., 2009; Tramuto et al., 2011) as a result causes respiratory, carcinogenic, and cardiovascular diseases (Pope et al., 1995; Brook et al., 2010). Nowadays, India is experiencing rapid growth and economic growth in income and automobiles. However, the pattern is changing rapidly as more people are moving to cities in search of livelihood (Wang and Tang, 2019). So in most cities, the major source of fuel combustion is the main contributor to outdoor air pollution, which increases along with population size and economic activity. The number of motorized vehicles in India has increased 29-fold, from How to cite this article: Kushawah, Y., Bhartiy, S.K., Soni, B., Prakash, K. (2021) Effect of Glass Industries on Air Quality in the Bangle City, Firozabad. J. Env. Bio-Sci. 35, 41-46. (DocID: https://connectjournals.com/03843.2021.35.41) Journal Homepage: www.connectjournals.com/jebs NAAS rating: 4.43 Indexed in: Web-Of-Science : Zoological Records ISSN 0973-6913 / e-ISSN 0976-3384 J.Env.Bio-Sci., Vol.35 (1), June-2021 : 41-46 DocID: https://connectjournals.com/03843.2021.35.41