Had been meaning to install those plug-in air fresheners but couldn’t be bothered to buy them for the past month. Then yesterday I learned that those fragrances are dispersed alongside a bunch of nasty VOCs. Looks like my inaction saved my lungs a bit of damage

What instances of laziness or forgetfulness have worked out in your favor?

  • grue@lemmy.world
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    2 hours ago

    Just FYI, fragrances are VOCs, pretty much by definition. They have to be “volatile” or else you wouldn’t smell them, and every chemical except noble gases is a “compound.” I suppose some plug-in air freshener fragrances could be inorganic, but I think the majority of inorganic volatile compounds probably smell bad (think ammonia or sulfur compounds).

    A “VOC free” air freshener would either be pointless or BSing you.