{"id":19,"date":"2008-06-22T00:08:34","date_gmt":"2008-06-22T00:08:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=19"},"modified":"2025-10-30T07:50:01","modified_gmt":"2025-10-29T23:50:01","slug":"beijing-dirty-on-the-outside-clean-on-the-inside","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/beijing-dirty-on-the-outside-clean-on-the-inside\/","title":{"rendered":"Beijing: dirty on the outside, clean on the inside?"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/images\/Beijing_outside.webp\" alt=\"Herv\u00e9 Bonnaveira wearing the Totobobo mask while cycling in air pollution outside of Beijing.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/images\/Beijing_filters.webp\" alt=\"Used Totobobo filters through the air pollution from ShijJaZhuang, Beijing to ZhangJiaKou.\"\/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p><span onmouseover=\"_tipon(this)\" onmouseout=\"_tipoff()\">10 June 2008 <a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.235.104\/translate_c?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/rouencitejeunes.free.fr\/spip.php%3Fauteur1&amp;usg=ALkJrhjh6D4RMH4E6r-PoGNTz-ADnTmxYQ\">Herv\u00e9 Bonnaveira<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Crossing a megalopolis by bike gives you a good idea of how polluted it is. Arriving in the Chinese capital from the South we followed a long line of thermal power stations and factory chimneys, which turned our totobobo anti-pollution filters black after 6 hours of use. Arriving in the Chinese capital from the South we followed a long line of thermal power stations and factory chimneys, which turned our totobobo anti-pollution filters black after 6 hours of use. Surprisingly, once we entered the city of 15 million, crossing its six ring roads and arriving on Tiananmen Square didn\u2019t pose problems when it came to pollution, as the light grey colour of our mask filters shows (see photo below). Surprisingly, once we entered the city of 15 million, crossing its six ring roads and arriving on Tiananmen Square did not pose problems when it came to pollution, as the light grey colour of our mask filters shows (see photo below). As we left Beijing we were spared the pollution on the first day, crossing the Great Wall in a setting of lush green hills, but soon found ourselves back in the soot-blackened industrial countryside as we continued North to Inner Mongolia. As we left Beijing we were spared the pollution on the first day, crossing the Great Wall in a setting of lush green hills, but soon found ourselves back in the soot-blackened industrial countryside as we continued North to Inner Mongolia.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/72.14.235.104\/translate_c?hl=en&amp;sl=es&amp;tl=en&amp;u=http:\/\/rouencitejeunes.free.fr\/spip.php%3Farticle152%26var_recherche%3Dtotobobo&amp;usg=ALkJrhh89UvUw4tA-nS7z_d4Q_6qDTpf4w\">read more<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related:<br>\n<a title=\"Protect your lungs when riding in the city\" href=\"hhttp:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/totobobo-mask-for-cyclist\/\">Protect your lungs when riding in the city<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"12 useful features of Totobobo mask for cyclist\" href=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/12-useful-totobobo-mask-features-for-cyclist\/\">12 useful features for cyclist<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a title=\"Cleaning TOTOBOBO mask\" href=\"http:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/?p=144\">How to clean TOTOBOBO mask for reuse?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>10 June 2008 Herv\u00e9 Bonnaveira Crossing a megalopolis by bike gives you a good idea of how polluted it is. Arriving in the Chinese capital from the South we followed a long line of thermal power stations and factory chimneys, which turned our totobobo anti-pollution filters black after 6 hours of use. Arriving in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[43,44,22,45,510],"class_list":{"0":"post-19","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-respirator","7":"tag-beijing","8":"tag-clean-air","9":"tag-cycling","10":"tag-inner-mongolia","11":"tag-pollution"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=19"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5983,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/19\/revisions\/5983"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=19"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=19"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/totobobo.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=19"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}