Indoor cooking a major cause of indoor air pollution

In less developed countries the combination of household cooking combined with poor ventilation is deadly. Indoor air can contain 100 times the acceptable levels for fine particles. This is particularly harmful for children and the cause of almost half of pneumonia deaths among children under 5 years. 

The 3.8 million annual deaths from indoor air pollution:

• 27% pneumonia
• 18% stroke
• 27% ischaemic heart disease
• 20% chronic obstructive pulmonary disease
• 8% lung cancer.

350 toxic chemicals off gazing from your products

It’s not only in less developed countries that the air indoors often is much more polluted than the air outside. “Modern” causes of indoor air pollution can be chemicals seeping out of building materials, furniture, office equipment etc. Up to 350 toxic chemicals are off gazing from our products.

Indoor air quality is worst

The air inside a typical home, or office, is 2-5 times more polluted than the air just outside - and in some cases much more. Indoor air pollution arises from cleaning products, personal care products, paints, carpets, computers, printers, and a number of other things. Considering people in the western world spend 90 percent of their time indoors this is really something to think about.

Our products are off-gassing chemicals

Bad chemicals are seeping out of building materials, furniture, office equipment, carpet, paints etc. Office air contains as many as 350 chemicals emitted by materials, furnishings, and office machines.

Ground level ozone 

Ozone at ground level is also an air pollutant and harmful to humans. Printers and copy machines, for example, are all off gazing ozone. Scientists have yet to figure out definitively what happens when that ozone mixes with other chemicals in the air. But between 2000 and 2030, premature deaths caused by ground-level ozone is expected to increase by a factor of 4

What to do?

You can use green cleaning products, paint with paints that are free of toxic chemicals, and in general use products that are not off-gassing chemicals into your living room and eventually into you.