The industrial air pollution was bad in Dongguan, but the regular burning of trash every evening (~6 - 7pm) really drove the point home. There is no experience quite like inhaling burning plastic fumes when the inflammation in your nasal passages is already dialed up to eleven.

Oh lord. China looks like a hell hole on that map :/

Those numbers can brutally spike too, more than doubling even for the high numbers; it’s basically like huffing hot soup through a car muffler.

Damn! Where I live it's 8 and even here the people are complaning if it goes up to 10 or something.