Researchers Says Houseplants Don’t Clean The Air Or Give People More Oxygen

reports researchers reviewed 12 studies and “debunked” several myths related to houseplants in a study published in the Journal of Exposure Science & Environmental Epidemiology. For example, the researchers say that houseplants do not “clean the air.” HealthDay (11/12, Preidt) reports the researchers “found that natural ventilation does a far better job than houseplants in maintaining air quality in homes and offices,” and that “it would take between 10 and 1,000 plants per square meter of floor space to match the air cleaning capacity of a building’s air-handling system or even just a couple of open windows in a house.” https://www.cnn.com/2019/11/12/health/plants-do-not-clean-indoor-air-trnd-wellness/index.html