New Delhi: The capital’s Indira Gandhi International (IGI) airport, which annually sees over 65 million passengers, is combating air pollution in a different way. Instead of opting for air purifiers, nearly 35,000 indoor ‘air purifying’ plants are being used that thrive indoors and can naturally clean the air from basic pollutants.
The airport operator, Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), said they are adding plants in thousands each year and the airport plans to increase this number considerably. In terms of external landscaping, nearly 3.9 million square feet of area within the IGI premises has been covered with plants and shrubs, officials said.
To provide natural purification of the air, a mix of foliage and flowering trees have been used, which consists of indoor species like cassia fistula, asltonia scholaris, spider plants, snake plants, golden pothos, weeping fig, jacaranda mimosifolia and bamboo palm among others.
Spider plants, for instance, battle benzene, formahaldehyde, carbon monoxide and xylene with its rich foliage, while weeping figs are known to help filter out pollutants thatr typically accompany carpeting and furniture such as formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene.
04/06/18 Jasjeev Gandhiok/Times of India
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The airport operator, Delhi International Airport Ltd (DIAL), said they are adding plants in thousands each year and the airport plans to increase this number considerably. In terms of external landscaping, nearly 3.9 million square feet of area within the IGI premises has been covered with plants and shrubs, officials said.
To provide natural purification of the air, a mix of foliage and flowering trees have been used, which consists of indoor species like cassia fistula, asltonia scholaris, spider plants, snake plants, golden pothos, weeping fig, jacaranda mimosifolia and bamboo palm among others.
Spider plants, for instance, battle benzene, formahaldehyde, carbon monoxide and xylene with its rich foliage, while weeping figs are known to help filter out pollutants thatr typically accompany carpeting and furniture such as formaldehyde, benzene and trichloroethylene.
04/06/18 Jasjeev Gandhiok/Times of India
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