Indoor Air Pollution
Vague Problem Definition: Those that experience the effects of indoor air pollution define indoor air pollution as a health hazard that is a growing problem in buildings and house today. Furniture, building materials, or upkeep materials can leak pollutants into a household (Binggeli 326). With more and more codes suggesting alternative chemicals and solutions, comes more and more pollution. However, those stakeholders in paint companies, gas companies, and much more would define indoor air pollution as going away. With all the advances in technology, the air inside a home is some of the cleanest according to them. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the air indoors is between two to ten times more polluted …show more content…
The pollutants that are outdoors will be brought indoors. There will always be pollutants outdoors that people naturally bring indoors. And as people are spending more and more times indoors, this creates the problem of indoor air pollution (WHO). Studies show that there are more pollutants indoors than outdoors (Hollowell). And more and more chemicals will be developed. Some are going to turn out to be hazardous after everyone thought it wasn’t. The building, renovating, or remodeling of houses will never stop. These are big contributors to the problem. As long as people continue to change, maintain, or add onto their houses, the air will not be perfectly clean (CDC). It is also hard to know if the solutions that might be put into place are also able to pollute the air. This could cause more pollution in different ways. So many variables make this problem never …show more content…
The boundaries are within the United States, in residential homes only. The components that lie within these boundaries are outdoor (contaminated outdoor air, emissions from nearby sources, soil gases, and moisture or standing water); indoor (HVAC Systems); human activities (personal activity, housekeeping activity, and maintenance activity); building components (locations that produce dust, unsanitary conditions, and chemicals from other building components); and others (accidental events, mixed use areas, and redecorate, repair, remodel)
Vague Problem Definition: Those that experience the effects of indoor air pollution define indoor air pollution as a health hazard that is a growing problem in buildings and house today. Furniture, building materials, or upkeep materials can leak pollutants into a household (Binggeli 326). With more and more codes suggesting alternative chemicals and solutions, comes more and more pollution. However, those stakeholders in paint companies, gas companies, and much more would define indoor air pollution as going away. With all the advances in technology, the air inside a home is some of the cleanest according to them. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says the air indoors is between two to ten times more polluted …show more content…
The pollutants that are outdoors will be brought indoors. There will always be pollutants outdoors that people naturally bring indoors. And as people are spending more and more times indoors, this creates the problem of indoor air pollution (WHO). Studies show that there are more pollutants indoors than outdoors (Hollowell). And more and more chemicals will be developed. Some are going to turn out to be hazardous after everyone thought it wasn’t. The building, renovating, or remodeling of houses will never stop. These are big contributors to the problem. As long as people continue to change, maintain, or add onto their houses, the air will not be perfectly clean (CDC). It is also hard to know if the solutions that might be put into place are also able to pollute the air. This could cause more pollution in different ways. So many variables make this problem never …show more content…
The boundaries are within the United States, in residential homes only. The components that lie within these boundaries are outdoor (contaminated outdoor air, emissions from nearby sources, soil gases, and moisture or standing water); indoor (HVAC Systems); human activities (personal activity, housekeeping activity, and maintenance activity); building components (locations that produce dust, unsanitary conditions, and chemicals from other building components); and others (accidental events, mixed use areas, and redecorate, repair, remodel)