Do you feel the difference in your IAQ with and without houseplants?
We did some digging into whether houseplants can actually lower CO₂ indoors.
Short version: they do absorb CO₂, but in typical home conditions (limited light, normal number of plants), the effect is very small. A lot of the “plants clean your air” idea comes from studies that don’t really reflect real living spaces.
From what we found, ventilation still makes the biggest difference by far.
We put together a blog article here if anyone’s curious:
https://aranet.com/en/home/blog/can-houseplants-lower-co2-at-home
Would be interesting to hear if anyone here has measured CO₂ changes with plants in the room.
u/Aranet_Home — 14 days ago