You are right to be skeptical. "A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth: The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants fro

You are right to be skeptical. "A Popular Benefit of Houseplants Is a Myth: The science is clear: Indoor vegetation doesn’t significantly remove pollutants from the air." https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-plants-clean-air-best-none-them/584509/ https://www.theatlantic.com/science/archive/2019/03/indoor-p... "Recently, Waring and his colleagues reanalyzed all 195 studies that have examined whether houseplants can filter the air. They found that some types of plants can remove higher amounts of VOCs than others. But once you factor in the effects of working in a large room, none of the plants are able to do much."