Houseplants Make Air Healthier

Recently the air on Earth has severely been getting worse and worse. The reason why is because of massive amounts waste, causing polution and global warming. Scientists have discovered that houseplants make the air in our houses much fresher and even healthier. Imagine walking in a room, seeing the beautiful plants and feeling refreshed from a day of hard work. The reason for this is because houseplants can neutralize the very harmful ozone, creating clean air. Also, indoor ozone is becoming a tremendous problem in numerous countries. This is from massive amounts of burning biomass for cooking, immense heat from poor ventilations while gases infiltrate from the outdoors, into offices/homes. In addition, "copying machines, printers along with other heavy technology and equipment can boost ozone concentrations indoors", the researchers say. In my opinion, I think there should be much more research for further information of how we can keep our world greener and cleaner. A good and simple step is to first keep the air from harmful gases to prevent hazards.

Date of Article: September 8, 2009

Link: http://www.livescience.com/environment/090908-plants-clean-air.html