![]() ![]() Most of that work concerned volatile organic compounds (VOCs), toxic and sometimes carcinogenic emissions from things such as plastics, synthetics, computers and furniture. ![]() "If you take one breath outdoors, it is equal to about a day's breathing indoors," says Professor Burchett.įor more than a decade, the UTS plant research group has been conducting laboratory and office studies to unlock the secrets of how potted plants improve indoor air quality. Their tests showed there was only a miniscule amount of fungal spores in the air in rooms that had plants with potting mix, compared with a much higher count in outside air, says the team's chief investigator and plant scientist, Margaret Burchett. The popularity of the indoor plants has also waned in the face of suggestions fungi in potting mix could induce allergies and asthma.īut recent research by the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) Plant and Indoor Environmental Quality Group has shown that is not the case. Recently, those values have been ignored by government and industry, who have slashed spending on indoor plants. ![]() But its hardy nature has proved a bellwether for the role we now know plants can play in freshening indoor air and lifting the office drone's mood. ![]() In Orwell's world, the Aspidistra equalled settling down, making good and selling your soul for a villa and a potted plant. ![]()
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