Hopes and Dreams Nursery School in Islington is installing 11 of Radic8's air purification units in its building to remove nitrogen dioxide and other indoor pollutants, such as formaldehyde, from the air.
To make the units more appealing to children and help them understand their use, the nursery has introduced a concept of Clean Air fairies.
Owner Susan Bingham said the nursery first became aware of the problem when the Guardian published a list of 802 nurseries, schools and colleges in London that were found to be in areas where levels of nitrogen dioxide breached EU legal limits.
The European nitrogen dioxide legal limit is 40 micrograms of nitrogen dioxide per cubic metre of air.
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