These tropical plants remove toxic heavy metals from the soil
Cleaning up contaminated soil is notoriously challenging -- unless you let nature do all the heavy lifting.
Source: zmescience.com
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Cleaning up contaminated soil is notoriously challenging -- unless you let nature do all the heavy lifting.
SINGAPORE (The Straits Times/Asia News Network): Plants readily found in Singapore are now being tapped to clean the soil of toxic contaminants, with 12 tropical species identified to take on the job.
A pilot to remove heavy metals and metalloids using more than a hundred tropical plants has begun at industrial land in the north of Singapore. . Read more at straitstimes.com.