Whats next for CBE and community monitoring efforts?
The buckets are only one part of CBE’s effort to implement better community-based monitoring and research techniques. The buckets, important as they are, are only able to monitor gases. They cannot measure for particulate matter or toxins, such as dioxins, that normally attach themselves to particles. CBE is working on strategies for making blood tests for dioxins more available to communities. Buckets also provide only a snapshot in time of conditions in a certain area. The next step for communities interested in monitoring how toxin levels are changing over time is to look into technologies like real-time optical sensors, which are able to provide continuous, more permanent monitoring. Credits: The Bucket Brigade Manual, Communities for a Better Environment; Julia May, Senior Scientist. Images reproduced from The Bucket Brigade Manual with the permission of Communities for a Better Environment.
