A Simple Solution to Indoor Pollution

In this day and age of technological solutions to everything, of course there's a high tech solution to high tech pollution! I mean the pollution that your carpeting and furniture creates and the stuff that spews out from your cleaning potions and your facial tissues. Detergents, particle board and medicines contain some of the most dangerous chemicals we know of. Once loosed in our homes, they flow through and through and back through our enclosed heating and cooling systems and right into our bodies as we breath.

As a matter of fact, the indoor environment in almost any home is very stressful to the human body. We do what we can - we plug in humidifiers, dehumidifiers, purifiers and ionizers and we use air filters on air conditioners and heaters. And yet, our homes are not healthy.

It's not a matter of "do we need a solution," but which solution is best? You can buy electronic air modifiers (and some with exorbitant claims) just about anywhere... but here's a riddle: How much pollution does an electronic modifier cause?

Are they worth the money? Probably not.

Air outside of our homes, while probably polluted, too, has one great advantage over air inside our homes: Nature constantly works its balancing act with it. To be more pointed, pollution from air is constantly being removed by plants. When pollution is at a greater level than plants can absorb, then we have trouble.

Now, translate that into your own home environment. The Associated Landscape Contractors of America, along with NASA, did a two year study to prove it. Plants clean air no matter where they are. Eighty - seven percent of all air pollution can be cleaned up by plants under the right circumstances. Have you ever looked for those statistics on an air purifier? (They're not there.)

Besides cleaning up the air, plants are cheaper to attain and they're quieter. They're prettier, too and they will usually outlast any air purifier. And they're cheaper to operate. And they're not so specialized that you need three different ones for three different purposes.