江蘇一小學有毒塑膠跑道引起社會熱議
Many primary school students in Jiangsu province suffered nosebleeds, dizziness and rashes after attending schools that recently installed plastic running tracks on their playgrounds. Parents of primary school students in several cities reported similar symptoms that started to show up in their children after school began in September.
江蘇省許多小學生接觸過學校操場新置的塑膠跑道後遭遇流鼻血，眩暈，患皮疹。許多城市小學生的父母都說道九月份入學之後，他們的孩子都開始有類似的症狀。The provincial educational department said on Wednesday that schools with pungent plastic tracks must hire professionals to perform tests. It sent a panel of experts to the cities to investigate the bidding process for the construction of the tracks. Any illegal behavior will be severely punished.
省教育行政部門週三表示，學校有刺鼻的塑料軌道必須聘請專業人士進行測試。派出專家小組調查學校跑道建設的招標程序，任何違法行爲都將受到嚴懲。Chen Yun, a teacher at Chongning Primary School in Wuxi, said no organization could provide the school with an official test report for its track. "The local disease control center said they can detect and analyze the air in an enclosed space, such as classrooms and washrooms. But they cannot test in open spaces," Chen said. Local environmental protection authorities have also declined to test the air around the pungent plastic running tracks.
陳雲，無錫崇寧一位教師表示，沒有組織能爲學校跑道提供官方測試報告。陳雲說道：“當地的疾病控制中心稱他們能測試分析封閉空間的空氣，例如教室，洗手間。但在開放空間卻無法測試。” 當地環保局同樣拒絕監測帶有刺鼻氣味的塑膠跑道周圍的空氣質量。
According to the Jiangsu Environmental Protection Bureau, China has no standards for the running track industry, which will make the air measurements meaningless as there are no data for reference in determining whether the air is contaminated. Moreover, materials used to build the tracks are not tested when they are produced at factories because of a lack of industry standards, it said.
據江蘇環保局表示，對於跑道行業，中國沒有制定標準，這使得空氣測量毫無意義，因爲沒有數據參考能判定空氣是否遭受污染。此外，由於缺少行業標準，工廠生產用於建造跑道的塑材也未經檢測。Ye Ping, deputy director of Taizhou Product Quality Supervision and Inspection Institute, said harmful elements in plastic running tracks may result in diseases. "The plastic tracks in China mainly consist of polyure-thane, a kind of nontoxic material," said Ye. "However, suppliers may add toxic adhesives. They give a pungent smell and may cause itching and dizziness.
葉平，台州市產品質量監督檢驗所副所長表示，塑膠跑道中的有害物質或將導致疾病。 葉說道：“中國的塑膠跑道中主要包含聚氨酯，它是一種無毒物質，然而，供應商可能增加有毒的粘合劑，散發着刺鼻的氣味，有可能引發瘙癢與眩暈。”"Some suppliers may also add a kind of material that helps the plastic to solidify, but the lead contained in it will raise lead levels above normal in children's blood after longtime exposure." Ye added that the country has not put forward regulations relating the detection of volatile organic compounds given off by runways.
“一些供應商或許增加一種物質，使得塑料更加堅固，但是長時間接觸後，這其中的鉛含量將超過正常孩子血液中的鉛含量。” 葉補充道，國家目前還沒頒佈檢測跑道散發出的揮發性的有機化合物的相關規定。The Jiangsu educational department has suggested that middle schools in Nanjing grow natural grass on their playgrounds.
江蘇省教育部門已經建議南京的中學在學校的操場上種草。
