A unusual report says a wide range of household items act as pollutants in our homes. So,how can we improve the quality of the air we breathe?Lemon and pine air fresheners. Solvents seeping slowly from plastics, paints and furnishings. Composite wood furniture and fittings, and household cleaning products and DIY sealants and fillers. Foam insulation,insecticides, scanners, or joss sticks,open fires, deodorants, and dust mites,mould and dander from dogs and cats.
These are some of the bewildering range of apparently innocuous household objects – and animals – that may be killing us indoors, according to a unusual report from the Royal College of Physicians and the Royal College of Paediatrics and Child Heath.Continue reading...
Source: theguardian.com