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Jeff J Mitchell/Getty Images Millions of Britons have emerged from a year of Covid-19 lockdowns with a new national obsession: houseplants. But while our collections of calathea and succulents can improve our immediate surroundings, they can also have a detrimental impact on the wider environment. Here is what to avoid for a “greener” approach to “plant parenting”. Peat The “vast majority” of houseplants are grown in peat, a soil-like substance formed from decayed organic matter, says The Telegraph.  But the mining of peat “is now widely condemned as unsustainable, environment-wrecking and carbon-emitting,” the newspaper continues. Peatlands act as “carbon sinks”, absorbing and storing huge amounts of carbon dioxide (CO2) from the atmosphere - so when peat is harvested, CO2 is released, increasing greenhouse gas levels.

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