RE: decontamination of soil
- Subject: RE: [cg] decontamination of soil
- From: "Corrie Zoll" c*@greeninstitute.org
- Date: Mon, 26 Sep 2005 07:41:01 -0500
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- Thread-topic: [cg] decontamination of soil
There may be some contaminants that are broken down into organic materials by plants or worms, but I do know that heavy metals don't just disappear when plants are used to remove them from the soil. In properly planned phytoremediation projects, plant material is removed before it sets fruit and the plant material is placed in a toxic waste landfil or incinerated in a smelter to remove the heavy metals. In poorly planned phytoremediation projects, plants like sunflowers or corn (which are good at taking up lead) are planted and allowed to fruit so that birds and other animals eat the toxic seeds, sickening the wildlife and then redistributing the contamination in the environment.
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Subject: [cg] decontamination of soil
Just came across the following:
A winter clover known as berseem clover proved to be effective at removing
heavy metals from soil. I do not know how this variety would grow in NO.
Ken Hargesheimer
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