IAQ Stats and Facts
1. An EPA economic analysis of repairs performed at an elementary school showed that if $370 per year over 22 years (a total of $8,140) had been spent on preventive maintenance, $1.5 million in repairs could have been avoided.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools: Actions to Improve IAQ (September 1999)
2. Twenty percent of the U.S. population, nearly 55 million people, spend their days in elementary and secondary schools.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools: Actions to Improve IAQ (September 1999)
3. One-half of our nation’s 115,000 schools have problems linked to indoor air quality.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, IAQ Tools for Schools: Actions to Improve IAQ
(September 1999)
4. Indoor levels of air pollutants can be 2-5 times higher, and occasionally 100 times higher, than outdoor levels.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools: Actions to Improve IAQ (September 1999)
5. Indoor air pollution consistently ranks among the top five environmental risks to public health.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, Indoor Air Quality Tools for Schools: Actions to Improve IAQ (September 1999)
6. Poor indoor air quality can cause illness-requiring absence from school, and can cause acute health symptoms that decrease performance while at school.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, Indoor Air Quality and Student Performance (August 2000)
7. Indoor air quality can reduce a person’s ability to perform specific mental tasks requiring concentration, calculation, or memory.
EPA Indoor Environments Division, Indoor Air Quality and Student Performance (August 2000)
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