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Air Filtering Plants for Home

Air Filtering Plants for Home

Pot Mum

Modern homes and modern materials can have an effect on your health. Plants that filter the air or react with pollutants can make your home a better place to live in several well-being ways.

Why Homes Need Air Filtering Plants

  • Formaldehyde can be released from household furnishings, carpeting, foam insulation, upholstery, curtains, and furniture made from MDF or composites. Formaldehyde can cause sore eyes, nose, and throat or nausea, coughing, and even skin rashes.
  • Smoking consumes oxygen as it created carbon dioxide and monoxide. Plants reverse this process by consuming carbon dioxide and releasing Oxygen. Plants will not achieve a reduction in the particles left by smoking.
  • Xylene, toluene and benzene are volatile gases which can effect sore eyes and stimulate potential allergies.
  • Trichloroethylene is an industrial solvent which has anesthetic properties that can lead to depression.
  • Some house plants are more efficient in filtering out toxins than others

Best Air Filtering Recommendations

  • There are numerous lists of plants that have air filtering properties. Nasa conducted a thorough study of both plants and the chemicals that they remove. This list is the best I have come across and I recommend you check it out on wikipedia
  • NASA recommend growing a good-sized houseplant for every 100 square-foot 10 m2 within the house.
  • Air fresheners are not to be relied upon. They may mask smells but give off chemical pollution.
  • Some house plants are more efficient in filtering out toxins than others
  • Gardeners tips recommends you grow a good variety of houseplants and Pot Mums to look good and help pollution control

Other Plant Filtering Benefits

  • In the home Chrysanthemum plants offers colour, tranquility and are one of the best pollution controls according to the NASA table.
  • Outdoors Bioremediation uses plants that mitigate environmental problem without the need to excavate the contaminant material and dispose of it elsewhere.
  • Phytostabilization uses plants to reduce wind erosion or the plant roots to prevent water erosion and offers long-term stabilization and containment of pollutants.
  • Phytotransformation uses special plants for specific problems such as pesticides, explosives, solvents, industrial chemicals. Cannas and Sunflowers can render these substances non-toxic by their metabolism.
  • Phytoremediation consists of mitigating pollutant concentrations in contaminated soils with plants able to contain, degrade, or eliminate metals, pesticides and solvents in a soil.

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More Benefits of Air Filtering Plants Outside the Home

Air filtering plants in an office can help reduce air conditioning energy consumption according to a study by K Meattle.
Better blood oxygen supply increases productivity.
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