This is cool!

[Michie]

Beautiful Mural in Warsaw Eats Up Smog, Purifying The Air Equal to 720 Trees

Warsaw, Poland became the latest city to feature public art projects that also clean city air, as a giant mural made of special, sun-activated, smog-cleaning pigments was painted by local artists.

Organized by the sportswear company Converse as part of their City-Forests campaign, the mural was produced using photocatalytic paint with titanium dioxide that attracts airborne pollutants before converting them into harmless nitrates through a chemical process involving sunlight.

Through this process the mural reportedly purifies the surrounding air equal to 720 trees, and when the campaign is finished, the murals spread across several countries should be doing the work of 3,000.

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Beautiful Mural in Warsaw Eats Up Smog, Purifying The Air Equal to 720 Trees

 

[Tigger45]

I like it particularly for inner cities. Art that has multiple benefits. This being one answer to the problem of air pollution I’d still like to see more trees planted.

 

[mmksparbud]

Beautiful Mural in Warsaw Eats Up Smog, Purifying The Air Equal to 720 Trees

Warsaw, Poland became the latest city to feature public art projects that also clean city air, as a giant mural made of special, sun-activated, smog-cleaning pigments was painted by local artists.

Organized by the sportswear company Converse as part of their City-Forests campaign, the mural was produced using photocatalytic paint with titanium dioxide that attracts airborne pollutants before converting them into harmless nitrates through a chemical process involving sunlight.

Through this process the mural reportedly purifies the surrounding air equal to 720 trees, and when the campaign is finished, the murals spread across several countries should be doing the work of 3,000.

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Beautiful Mural in Warsaw Eats Up Smog, Purifying The Air Equal to 720 Trees

Cool!! Esp. since they're sunflowers!