A mask to protect against fine particles? Ineffective and anxious in the eyes of others. Eco-friendly students from the Delft City University of Technology in the Netherlands came up with a clever idea. Anxious to breathe cleaner air than that polluted in cities, the young designers are working on a prototype plant bag. It consists of a backpack fitted with an antipollution filter that sucks in the air and passes it through the roots of a plant before returning it, through a whole bunch of pipes, into the wearer’s mouth.
“This bag allows fine particles to be filtered and clean the airThe head of the project, Marnix de Kroon, told AFP on Monday. The plant retained to filter the air should be aloe vera. sported by health-conscious city dwellers, pedestrians and cyclists alike, fail to do so.
The anti-pollution backpack is currently being developed by the young team from the University of Delft. The concept has already been awarded in a design competition.
Going green
Some puzzled voices facing the “Plant bag” are heard. Thus, an expert from the Royal Dutch Meteorological Institute judges that the plant will only serve as a decoration because the filter alone is sufficient. Whether it is to look pretty or for a real promise of efficiency, we can bet that this invention, if it comes to be marketed, will help the inhabitants of large cities, where the air is classified as carcinogenic by the World Health Organization ( WHO), will persuade people to go green.
The Japanese have already integrated it well into their daily lives, since they are used to doing Shinrin-yoku (“forest bath”).
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