Could you make an exchange of pollution between different surfaces of the plants in both directions?
So it would make sense to use them with air filtration mods. You can even use a certain multiplier - two times more is transferred to outside than inside.
EDIT:
On the surface, can you set the level of dispersion of pollution? Why not remove it at all (0), and then the idea is only to suck air in if the pollution inside is much lower than outside. Here, it might even be worth taking out a certain configuration parameter-multiplier to calculate this difference.