alt Hacker NewsWarsaw is top 15, Krakow and Warsaw are the only European cities in the top 15. For some added context, it's around -10 degrees celcius there right now. I don't know why Poland stands out here, but I know that older residential areas burn wood (in other Eastern European countries as well), because that's just how you heat an old house: these neigbourhoods are horrible to walk through in winter, because the air just stinks of smoke.
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krige • today at 9:04 AM
On top of the trash burning, there's also the fact that Krakow is in a valley so all that pollution just stays in (probably for the better /s)
nuthje • today at 8:58 AM
On top of that Krakow is in a valley, so the air just hangs around.
Burning coal and wood wouldn't be that bad. Unfortunately its quite common that people burn their trash