<div class='ui dimmer modals page' style='display: none;'><div id='helpie-password-modal' class='pauple_helpie ui modal small' style='display: none;'><div class='ui header'><i class='circular lock icon'></i> Password Protected</div><div class='item-content'><br /><label for='password_check'>Enter Password : </label><p><input type='password' id='password_check' name='password_check' class='password' value='' required></p></div><div class='actions'><div class='ui black deny button'>Nope</div><div class='ui positive right labeled icon button'>Yep, that's right!<i class='checkmark icon'></i></div></div><div class='clear'></div></div></div>{"id":4087,"date":"2020-02-20T02:45:06","date_gmt":"2020-02-20T02:45:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/smart-air-knowledge-base\/why-not-use-fiberglass-hepa-filters\/"},"modified":"2024-01-10T18:16:26","modified_gmt":"2024-01-10T10:16:26","slug":"why-not-use-fiberglass-hepa-filters","status":"publish","type":"pauple_helpie","link":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/smart-air-knowledge-base\/why-not-use-fiberglass-hepa-filters\/","title":{"rendered":"Are Smart Air HEPA Filters Made from Fiberglass or Polypropylene (PP+PET)?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class='breadcrumbs pauple_helpie_breadcrumbs'><a class='mainpage-link' href='https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/'>Knowledge Base<\/a> <span class='helpiekb_separator'> &nbsp;&nbsp; <i class='fa fa-angle-right' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><a class='mainpage-link' href='https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/cat\/smart-air-purifiers\/'>Smart Air Purifiers<\/a> <span class='helpiekb_separator'> &nbsp;&nbsp; <i class='fa fa-angle-right' aria-hidden='true'><\/i>&nbsp;&nbsp;<\/span><a class='mainpage-link' href='https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/smart-air-knowledge-base\/why-not-use-fiberglass-hepa-filters\/'>Are Smart Air HEPA Filters Made from Fiberglass or Polypropylene (PP+PET)?<\/a> <\/div><p>Smart Air uses <strong>PP + PET material in all our HEPA filters<\/strong>, including the Blast, Blast Mini, SA600, Sqair and QT3 air purifiers. Data shows that <a href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/hepa-air-filter-fiber-harmful-health\/\">glass fiber filters can shed more fibers than synthetic filters.<\/a> While the number of particles shed by both types of filter is very small, Smart Air chooses to use synthetic polypropylene + polyethylene terephthalate (PP + PET) fibers to reduce the possibility of fibers being released into the air.<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/what-is-hepa-filter-how-hepa-filter-work\/?d\">What are HEPA filters and what materials are they made from? \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/en\/blog\/hepa-air-filter-fiber-harmful-health\/\">Do HEPA filters shed fibers and are they harmful to our health? \u00bb<\/a><\/p>\n<div class='pauple-helpie-module article-voting'><span class='label'>Was this article useful?<\/span><span data-post-id='4087' data-user-id='0' class='icon-tray'><span  data-vote='thumbs up outline' class=' voting-icon thumbs up outline '><i data-content='thumbs up outline' class='thumbs up outline outline icon' aria-hidden='true'><\/i><count>16<\/count><\/span><span  data-vote='thumbs down outline' class=' voting-icon thumbs down outline '><i data-content='thumbs down outline' class='thumbs down outline outline icon' aria-hidden='true'><\/i><count>4<\/count><\/span><\/span><\/div><div style='clear:both;'><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Knowledge Base &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Smart Air Purifiers &nbsp;&nbsp; &nbsp;&nbsp;Are Smart Air HEPA Filters Made from Fiberglass or Polypropylene (PP+PET)? Smart Air uses PP + PET material in all our HEPA filters, including the Blast, Blast Mini, SA600, Sqair and QT3 air purifiers. Data shows that glass fiber filters can shed more &#8230; <a title=\"Are Smart Air HEPA Filters Made from Fiberglass or Polypropylene (PP+PET)?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/smart-air-knowledge-base\/why-not-use-fiberglass-hepa-filters\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Are Smart Air HEPA Filters Made from Fiberglass or Polypropylene (PP+PET)?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4824,"featured_media":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_relevanssi_hide_post":"","_relevanssi_hide_content":"","_relevanssi_pin_for_all":"","_relevanssi_pin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_unpin_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_keywords":"","_relevanssi_related_include_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_exclude_ids":"","_relevanssi_related_no_append":"","_relevanssi_related_not_related":"","_relevanssi_related_posts":"","_relevanssi_noindex_reason":"","footnotes":""},"helpdesk_category":[603],"helpie_tag":[185,99,270,304,305,262,75,192,316,1411,140],"helpie_add_tag":[],"helpie_up_tag":[],"class_list":["post-4087","pauple_helpie","type-pauple_helpie","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","helpdesk_category-smart-air-purifiers","helpie_tag-blast","helpie_tag-blast-mini","helpie_tag-ffu","helpie_tag-fiberglass","helpie_tag-fibreglass","helpie_tag-filter","helpie_tag-hepa","helpie_tag-material","helpie_tag-pet","helpie_tag-pppet","helpie_tag-safe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pauple_helpie\/4087","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pauple_helpie"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/pauple_helpie"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4824"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4087"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pauple_helpie\/4087\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6027,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pauple_helpie\/4087\/revisions\/6027"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4087"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"helpdesk_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpdesk_category?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"helpie_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpie_tag?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"helpie_add_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpie_add_tag?post=4087"},{"taxonomy":"helpie_up_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/smartairfilters.com\/learn\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/helpie_up_tag?post=4087"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}