Topic Overview
Area sources
Any source of air pollution emitted over an area, which cannot be classified as a point source. Area sources can be a large number of similar small stack point sources which can be difficult to estimate individually. Area sources might include emissions from household activities such as cooking and heating, small business activities, agricultural residue burning, waste combustion, fugitive dust from deposits and roads, forest fires, small activities from gasoline service stations, small paint shops, consumer use of solvents and biogenic (natural) sources. Waste deposits can also be a large...read more