The Air Inside Your Home Is More Important Than You Think
Most people think of air quality as an outdoor problem — smog, wildfire smoke, traffic exhaust. The air inside your home, sealed off from all of that, must be fine. In reality, the opposite is often true. Studies by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have found that indoor air can be two to five times more polluted than outdoor air, and in some cases significantly worse. For most adults, who spend roughly 90 percent of their time indoors, that is not a statistic to overlook. Understanding what is actually in your indoor air — and what it does to you — is the first step toward doing something about it.
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