Environmental health officers from Blaenau Gwent council told the meeting that monitoring suggested airpollution was not at a critical level, but this would continue.
Eight thousand people a day die from airpollution but some simple preventative steps and increased monitoring could lessen the toll, according to a recently released report by Australia's Commonwealth Science Council.
We saw a bevy of new gadgets and gizmos hitting the scene this week such as intelliPaper, which recently found a way to transform tiny scraps of paper into fully functional USB drives and programmable documents and CitiSense, a portable pollutionmonitoring system that allows you to check nearby air quality on your smartphone.