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From: rcn@hou2d.UUCP (R.C.Newberry)
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Houseplants Remove Indoor Air Pollution
Message-ID: <683@hou2d.UUCP>
Date: Thu, 12-Sep-85 11:06:36 EDT
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Posted: Thu Sep 12 11:06:36 1985
Date-Received: Fri, 13-Sep-85 04:21:49 EDT
Organization: AT&T-BL Middletown,NJ
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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.
Other plants mentioned were the wandering jew, philedendron and
the peace plant.

Luckily, these are some of the easiest plants to grow indoors.

The reasearch over the last 4 years cost $63000.  Next to nothing
compared to the space programs!

-- 
  Rosemarie Newberry
  AT&T-BL, Middletown, NJ
  201-949-9104
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