Just how green is your greenery?
From lush, temperamental fiddle-leaf figs to laidback snake plants, indoor houseplants have become ubiquitous in the homes of many millennials and Gen Z -- particularly as their care became a soothing and serotonin-boosting hobby early in the pandemic.
But just how green is your greenery? It seems logical that more plants should be beneficial for the environment -- after all, they produce the oxygen we breathe. But "Growing indoor foliage plants is a highly intensive process," said Dr. Loren R. Oki, a specialist in environmental horticulture at the University of California, Davis and co-director at the University of California Nursery and Floriculture Alliance."There's high plant densities, there's fast turnovers . It's a really complex system...They require a lot of resources like energy, labor, water, fertilizers," as well as the potting mix.
The multi-billion-dollar behind your local plant shop requires vast amounts of resources and produces waste and pollution.Water use further strains drought-prone areas, while nitrates from fertilizers have contaminated Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the US, as well as California's drinking water, according to a 2012from UC Davis. Nitrous oxide is also emitted from these fertilizers -- a greenhouse gas that warms the atmosphere nearly 300 times more than carbon dioxide.
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