Did you know?
The problem of indoor pollution
- It is estimated that people spend 90% of their time indoors
- Indoor air pollution is 30 times worse inside bedrooms
- The EPA and its Science Advisory Board have consistently ranked indoor air pollution among the top five environmental risks to public health
- Studies have shown that the levels of many airborne pollutants may be 25 to 100 times higher indoors than outdoors
- According to the American College of Allergists, 50% of ALL illnesses are caused or aggravated by, polluted indoor air
- The health care costs and productivity decreases from allergies and asthma are about THIRTEEN BILLION DOLLARS per year
- Ten to twelve million Americans suffer from asthma. Asthma is the single largest cause of hospital visits by children
- 10% of colds are caught outdoors; 90% are caught indoors
"It is hard to come up with another problem that affects more people than indoor pollution."
--- Yale School of Medicine
"Americans spend approximately 90% of their time indoors. Now the leading chronic illness among children, asthma affects one in ten children."
---The American Lung Association
"Indoor air pollution is one of our biggest environmental health threats... bigger than toxic wastes sites and the destruction of the ozone layer."
---Environmental Protection Agency
What air are you breathing?
Everyday we breathe-in these microscopic dust particles:
- In 1 cubic metre of air we have 80 - 100 billion dust particles
- Everyday we take in approx 20000 breaths of air
- Per breath we take in 40000 - 75000 dust particles
- That means daily, one spoonful of fine dust!
