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From: ayers@convexs.UUCP
Newsgroups: net.garden
Subject: Re: Houseplants Remove Indoor Air Pollu
Message-ID: <15800004@convexs>
Date: Mon, 16-Sep-85 11:19:00 EDT
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Posted: Mon Sep 16 11:19:00 1985
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Nf-From: convexs.UUCP!ayers    Sep 16 10:19:00 1985


>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.


I DID NOT SEE THIS SHOW, however this information has been showing up in
plant, nature, back-to-earth, and alternate-lifestyle rags most of the 
year -- and the figures they all give agree:  10-15 plants PER ROOM would 
be on the low estimate side.  They all said about 75 plants per average 
household...




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