ATHLETE Toolkit – Introduction

In our ATHLETE project, we’ve worked together with different groups – schools, pupils, parents, researchers, local government – to better understand issues around air pollutants and our urban environment such as:

• Where and how much air pollution pupils are exposed to on their daily commutes
• How we can work together (‘co-produce’) to come up with, and put into place, actions (‘interventions’) to lower the amount of air pollution pupils come into contact with
• What actions (‘interventions’) have been tried before by researchers and do they work as intended (are they ‘effective’)?
• What might be the priorities in a city if they could only choose to put a certain number of actions in place?

We have also worked to find out about the chemical pollutants found in our everyday personal care products (shampoo, toothpaste, soap, make-up, fragrances, etc.) including:

• What kind and how much of the chemicals found in our everyday products show up in our bodies when we use them?
• Is it possible to reduce the levels of these chemicals in our bodies? How – and, what’s the best way?

In this toolkit, we have resources for different interests: