But South Africa , Egypt, and others have implemented bans on used car imports, and a growing number of delivery and mobility startups on the continent are using EVs. So the end of leaded gas could be just he beginning of much cleaner air across the continent. The original version of this piece stated that all leaded fuels had been phased out globally. In fact, leaded fuels are still used in certain small aircraft, boats, racecars, and other specialty vehicles.
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By providing your email, you agree to the Quartz Privacy Policy. Skip to navigation Skip to content. However, the current status of leaded petrol in the country is unknown. Iraq is an oil-producing country with the second largest oil reserves in the world after Saudi Arabia. Iraq has many refineries that have been dependent on leaded gasoline. The country had set up the transformation from lead to unleaded gasoline to be complete by the year The setbacks to transformation were the cost of changing the refinery and the cost of selling unleaded fuel.
Iraq had been purchasing its tetraethyl lead from Innospec Limited which declared in that they were no longer selling TEL to Iraq. Yemen has had a transition from using leaded gasoline and finally phased it out in The delay in transition was caused by the oil refineries which were dependent on leaded fuel.
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But why were countries using it the in first place, and why did it take so long to phase out? The leaded product was highly promoted and popular, even though there were cleaner alternatives— based on alcohol, for example. All the lead that went into gas tanks globally—three grams in each gallon—came out the exhaust pipe as particles that lingered in the air before settling on surfaces. Gasoline coated the world in lead. Environmental Protection Agency. Japan was first to ban leaded gas in Austria, Canada, Slovakia, Denmark, and Sweden followed.
In the United States and Germany, the final phase-out of leaded fuel came in , a quarter century ago. Lead impacts nearly every physiological domain in the human body, said Amit Bhattacharya , a professor of environmental health at the University of Cincinnati. You have to see a letter, which is a symbol, put it together with other symbols, connect that to a pronunciation, connect that to an object or an activity.
Children who have been exposed to lead take a blow to these processes that can amount to 10 IQ points. From first grade to 11th. He and a team found a way to detect lead-induced impairments with a quick, non-invasive test that can be administered starting at age five.
Found early, some problems with balance and motion may be treatable. Another researcher, Kim Cecil , shed light on the possible pathway, Battacharya said.
It was gone. Lead can travel across the blood-brain barrier, he explained: It can go anywhere it wants. Currently, Bhattacharya is finding early bone fragility in women that is associated with lead exposure. In the early s, 25 sub-Saharan countries agreed in the UN-sponsored Dakar Declaration to phase out leaded petrol. The UNEP partnership formed and began its work. The minister soon banned leaded gasoline from Benin.
But countries in the world still allowed it. The UNEP team also encountered misinformation.
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