Sydney: Planting plants in homes can help reduce your risk of developing cancer, according to a study.
Researchers from the University of Technology Sydney in Australia, in collaboration with a company called Embius, found that home plants can clear toxic vapors, including cancer-causing particles, from the building.
In the first study of its kind, the ability of plants to purify gasoline vapor was tested. This evaporation is one of the main causes of toxic compounds in buildings around the world.
The plants studied had cleared 97 percent of the harmful vapors from the air in just eight hours.
According to the World Health Organization, indoor air pollution caused 3.2 million premature deaths in 2020.
The inhalation of gasoline vapor can cause inflammation, headache and nausea in the lungs. Prolonged exposure to these vapours is associated with an increased risk of cancer, asthma and other chronic diseases.
University researchers claim that most people spend 90 percent of their time indoors, offices or schools, so improving air quality is important.
According to the researchers, there are garages with many job sites, homes and even schools, or these buildings are along a busy road or near a petrol station, as a result of which people in these buildings are exposed to petrol-related chemicals on a daily basis.
For the research, they built nine green walls. It is a vertical structure to which different plants and or greenery are attached.
