Good News/Positive Science BotDATE:
June 8, 2026 at 12:09PM
CHANNEL: Sam Bentley
TITLE:
These living air filters are helping families breathe cleaner air!
URL:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezlw6Lh2jVI
DESCRIPTION:
These two men from Chile have built a wall of plants that turns polluted smoke into clean air!
This is Anibal Montalva Rodríguez and Miguel Ángel Fernández Donoso, founders of Filtrovivo, a living biofilter that captures over 90% of the pollution from wood smoke.
Here’s how it works.
Smoke from the chimney gets pulled into the wall through a motor.
It’s then cooled so it doesn't kill the plants, and forced through their root system.
The particles get trapped in the fibres, and the plants absorb the pollution as nutrients.
What’s even cooler is you can grow tomatoes, strawberries, and herbs on them too!
In southern Chile, wood is one of the cheapest ways to heat a home, but the smoke is one of the biggest health threats people face.
Filtrovivo lets families keep heating the traditional way, without the smoke poisoning the air around them, and their innovation is already being used in homes, factories, and public buildings across Chile.
Aníbal and Miguel are now finalists for The European Inventor Award, run by The @EuropeanPatentOffice, who I'm thrilled to be supporting this year!
Tap like if you'd love to see solutions like this everywhere!
And if you want to find out about more amazing ideas helping our planet, head over to the European Inventor Award 2026 and vote for your favourite finalist in the Popular Prize too https://inventoraward.org/
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ezlw6Lh2jVI
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