Humans have evolved over at least one hundred thousand years, surrounded with plants. Our environment and lifestyle has changed dramatically in recent years; however, genetically, we have not.

"The indoor environment is 5 to 10 times more polluted than the exterior" (1994 CSIRO review)

Plants Improve Air Quality
Most people spend the majority of time indoors at home or work. Air conditioning, improved insulation, and energy-saving all reduce air exchange in buildings, so we breathe the same air again and again. Because the modern internal environment is virtually hermetically sealed and the construction materials used, modern synthetic furnishings, computers, electrical equipment, and everyday household products such as cleaning material, can produce harmful substances that are trapped inside the building. These all contribute to the well recognised "sick building syndrome". Polluted indoor air, contaminated by volatile organic compounds (VOCs), are a major cause of headaches, nausea, sore & itchy eyes, loss of concentration and other "sick building" symptoms.

The simple addition of interior plants is a natural way to help significantly to remove these pollutants.

There is a wealth of scientific study into the beneficial effects of live plants in the interior environment including a large NASA programme. For more detail of this and other independent research refer to:

www.healthygreenatwork.org
www.plants-for-people.org
www.greenplantsforgreenbuildings.org

Other Benefits of Interior Plants
As well as purifying the air we breathe the presence of indoor plants have also been shown to have many other beneficial effects, details of this research can be found on the links above. These benefits include: