Kamal Meattle is an Indian environmental activist and CEO of Paharpur Business Centre & Software Technology Incubator Park based in New Delhi, India.
Meattle held a talk at TED 2009 entitled How to Grow Your Own Fresh Air.
[1] After becoming allergic to New Delhi's polluted air in 1992, Meattle claimed to have discovered that three common houseplants could help reduce the pollutants in the air.
[2] The three plants and their properties are listed below: Meattle does not provide any numerical data to support his claims,[3] nor is there third-party confirmation of the results, but at least one study calls the hypothesis into question.
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