How Common Household Products Pollute Our Indoor Air

Candles, hair styling products, and other common items can produce toxic air pollution that lingers in our homes.

You have probably given some thought to outdoor air pollution, whether it’s wildfire smoke or smog from traffic. You may even check AQI measurements on your phone. But what about the air inside your home? Host Flora Lichtman talks to civil and environmental engineer Nusrat Jung, who studies indoor air pollution, about how we create toxic air without even knowing it, and what we can do to avoid it. 

Guest: Dr. Nusrat Jung is a civil and environmental engineer at Purdue University.

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