ayers@convexs.UUCP (09/16/85)
>Formaldihyde is an out-gas (gas by-product) of indoor building materials. >On the TODAY show (Sept 12th) a NASA researcher stated that some >houseplants will remove this indoor pollutant. The best plant >was the spider plant. For an average house 10-15 plants are sufficient. I DID NOT SEE THIS SHOW, however this information has been showing up in plant, nature, back-to-earth, and alternate-lifestyle rags most of the year -- and the figures they all give agree: 10-15 plants PER ROOM would be on the low estimate side. They all said about 75 plants per average household... ::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :::::::::::: :: :: ::::::::::::::::::: :: :: :: ::::::::::: :: :: : :: :: :: :: ::::::::::: :: :: : :: :: ::
seb@mtgzz.UUCP (s.e.badian) (09/20/85)
I saw this subject discussed on the local NBC 6:00 news a week back. The scientist at NASA said that for the average size house (about 1300 sq ft) you would need 10 to 15 plants. This is the guy who did the research. I figure he knows his stuff. Maybe the back-to-nature, blah, blah groups own some houseplant nurseries? :-) I know my apartment is free of harmful gases. I think I have about 50 plants in my one bedroom apartment. They're slowly taking over. Some morning I'm going to find my husband strangled by a pothos or something. Sharon Badian ihnp4!mtgzz!seb ...we got to install some microwave ovens, custom kitchen delivery. we got to move these refrigerators, we got to move these color tv's...
thomas@utah-gr.UUCP (Spencer W. Thomas) (09/26/85)
There was an article in the August-September issue of National Wildlife
magazine. Bill Wolverton, a NASA scientist has been studying the
pollution fighting capabilities of indoor plants, with an eye towards
using them for absorbing airborne pollutants in space. He found that
spider plants were the best: "One spider plant per room would help to
alleviate the buildup of nitrogen oxides where combustion is occuring.
However, to absorb the formaldehyde that seeps out of ... insulation,
resins and other synthetic products, an average-sized home would need
about 15 spider plants."
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