Comments on: Pollution free house with Natural Plants: Grow them and breathe freely

By: Jamie

Jamie — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 16:35:44 +0000

My houseplant just tried to bite me.

By: PlantLover

PlantLover — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:31:01 +0000

From Mercola.com:

It was NASA, along with the Associated Landscape Contractors of America (ALCA), that conducted the classic study on the benefits of plants on indoor air, and they reported that houseplants were able to remove up to 87 percent of air toxins in 24 hours. They recommended using 15 to 18 “good-sized” houseplants in 6- to 8-inch diameter containers for an 1,800 square-foot house.

NASA at Stennis Space Center has also constructed a BioHome that uses bioregenerative technology with the ultimate goal of providing a life support system for permanent human habitation of space. And inside the structure are common houseplants, which NASA says “serve as living air purifiers” to “absorb chemical pollutants resulting from synthetic materials in the living area.”

By: rudolph

rudolph — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 02:38:35 +0000

man, all you peeps are jaded…plants ROCK!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

By: randy

randy — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 12:31:27 +0000

It’s true, you don’t need vacuum cleaners at all! I spilled some cereal on the carpet this morning, and before I could even get to the closet to find the vacuum cleaner, my Sansevieria plant had cleaned it all up! Thank god I don’t have to vacuum my carpet any more!

By: bill

bill — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:26:28 +0000

poor Marios dog never learned to read for itself

By: Mario

Mario — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 22:16:18 +0000

I fed my dog some devil’s ivy, I woke up this morning and it was dead… is this just a coincidence?

By: Ryan

Ryan — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 21:47:48 +0000

Where are the references to the scientific literature supporting these claims? I’m not saying that this information is wrong, but, its completed unsupported by any other source. I’d like to find out just how much of a type of a pollutant can be cleaned by an individual plant.

In other words, will having one of these plants actually make a measurable improvement in the air quality?

By: miles

miles — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:06:04 +0000

Under devil’s Ivy the article says the plant SHOULD be consumed – even by dogs. I believe this is a typo. Wikipedia says it is poisonous to cat’s and dogs.