House Plants Can “Clean” the Air Indoors (Or Is It the Microbes in the Potting Soil?)
Posted in Phytoremediation on Mar 1st, 2009
From this years TED conference comes news that plants can clean the air in a large office building in India….and increase people’s productivity! One of the plants used in this study is the so-called “Mother-in-Law’s Tongue” or Sansevieria trifasciata. (see photo on right.) This certainly is good news, although the idea that plants remove hydrocarbons, [...]
