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houseplants led to better outcomes like less eye irritation and less breathing issues.
Using Advanced Container for the House Plants
Wolverton had written a successful book (2010), which explains how plants exhale water vapor
and the process of drawing of materials into the root to eliminate contamination or to transfer
food to plant. Wolverton collaborated with a Japanese association that has found an advanced
technique to make the plants more dynamic and that is by using a sophisticated pot with high
efficiency carbon fillers and a root level circulation system which boosts its adequacy into 200
times more efficient than the conventional pots as shown in Figure 2.

Figure 2: Indoor air purifier with activated carbon (Wolverton 2010)
Plants Contributes Are Improvement to A Healthy Lifestyle
Nowadays we witness an increase of Sick Building Syndrome (SBS), which has become both a critical and a costly issue, since it causes health problems. Researchers have found that this problem
can be majorly reduced by simply including indoor plants in the workplace environments, and
this will help improving the workers’ health condition and boosting up their energy. A research
was conducted by Professor Tove Fjeld of the Agricultural University in Oslo, Norway, about SBS
and how it affects employees. The study included 51 workplaces where all of them at one particular amount of time had flowers and plants installed, and at another time had no plants installed
(GPGB 2014). All offices where exactly similar to each other, with the same characteristics, each
worker worked in a separate single office with an area of 10m² and with a great amount of the
external wall covered by a window. During the period where plants were involved, all the employees were subjected to 13 widely used foliage plants located in 3 containers on a window bench,
and terracotta container with plants places at the back of the office. After installing the plants, 12
of the symptoms that were associated with SBS were observed, and the results concluded that
the plants installed in the offices reduced complaint of these symptoms by 23%. When the signs
and symptoms were looked overall, there was a distinguishable decrease in the neuro-psychological symptoms and in the mucous membrane symptoms, whereas plants did not lead to any
change in the skin symptoms (GPGB 2014).
The Indian Implication
Kamal Meattle from TED conference (2009) the environmental activist gave a speech on the conversance establishing by telling his story about how his lung ability has gone down to 70% as a
result of the air quality in New Delhi in India, which is fatal. After collaborating with researchers,
they discovered a 3 kinds of plants that can generate fresh air to enhance our health and comfort,
as the plants are illustrated in figure below (Fig.3):

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