Plants to aid your environment

Never heard of "Wondering sailor"!

There is a trailing house plant which is known in this area as Wandering Sailor ( , Tradescantia zabrina )but the more I thought on it, I now know it wasn't that plant but a spider plant (Chlorophytum comosum) that cleaned the air of fumes released by the type of cavity wall insulation that was used in, I think the late eighties or nineties