It’s not just your heating bill you have to worry about in winter. Bunkering down at home during the chilly months causes us to breathe more polluted air than we would outdoors – despite what you may think.
“People want clean air – they’re thinking, well, I can go indoors. No! Indoor air is always worse than outdoors,” says Fraser Torpy, a bioremediation researcher with the University of Technology Sydney. “Every single time it’s ever been studied by anybody, indoor air quality is worse than outdoors.”
