Using pot plants to clean indoor air
- Publisher:
- The Nursery Papers, Nursery and Garden Industry Australia
- Publication Type:
- Report
- Citation:
- 2004, pp. 1 - 4
- Issue Date:
- 2004-01
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Polluted indoor air, air contaminated by Volatile Organic Compounds (VOCs), are a major cause of headaches, nausea, concentration loss and other `building-related illnesses. Previous laboratory research by the Plants and Environmental Quality Group at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS) has shown that the `pot plant system (plants-and-potting-mix combination) can daily eliminate several times the Australian maximum exposure concentrations of the common VOCs benzene and n-hexane.
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