PLANT/SOIL CAPACITIES TO REMOVE HARMFUL SUBSTANCES FROM
POLLUTED INDOOR AIR
R.
A.
Wood, M.
D.
Burchett RA Orwell, J Tarran, F Torpy
Plants and Environmental Quality Group, Centre for Ecotoxicology, UTS,
Westbourne St, Gore Hill, NSW 2065
Australia
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PLANT/SOIL CAPACITIES TO REMOVE HARMFUL SUBSTANCES FROM
POLLUTED INDOOR AIR
R.
A.
Wood, M.
D.
Burchett RA Orwell, J Tarran, F Torpy
Plants and Environmental Quality Group, Centre for Ecotoxicology, UTS,
Westbourne St, Gore Hill, NSW 2065
Australia
The aesthetic value of indoor plants is easily seen, however the unseen ability of
indoor plants to improve indoor air quality has never been conclusively shown or,
until now, quantified.
Research at the University of Technology, Sydney has shown that indoor plants do
improve air quality.
As a result, clear claims can now be made as to how indoor plants
improve air quality, and development of varieties with an even better capacity for
improving indoor air can begin.
Why worry about indoor air quality?
Could everyday activities in our homes and offices, places we usually consider to be
essentially unpolluted, expose us to the greatest contact with potentially toxic air
pollutants?
Could ordinary consumer products such as air fresheners, deo
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