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India: Delhi eyes novel ways to battle smog

From the outside, the Paharpur Business Centre looks like any modern office block. But inside it is a virtual jungle where rooms and corridors are lined with more than 7,000 potted plants and creepers.

The greenhouse terrace, with artificial grass and green walls, houses an “air washing” system that moves polluted outside air through a series of cleaning filters.

It is then pushed through the greenhouse where the plants remove bacteria, fungus, carbon dioxide and other toxins, before the air conditioning pumps it to workers on the floors below.

“It would be like working in Gulmarg in Kashmir or Davos in Switzerland in this building,” 73-year-old Meattle told AFP as he looked out at the smog from the protection of the lush rooftop nursery.

Read more at the Borneo Bulletin (Annie Banerji & Faisal Kamal)
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