Plants and pollutants
by Lewis, 6 April, 2018, 0 comments
There are plants that we like, and some that we don’t. In the latter category, there are weeds - the plants that grow in the ‘wrong places’. The plants that we like include those that we eat (crops), those that we grow for timber, for pharmaceuticals or for aesthetics / pleasure. However, we now can add other uses for certain plants - namely phytoremediation and phytomining.
Phytoremediation involves the use of plants to ‘extract’ heavy metals from contaminated land. Land can become contaminated with potentially harmful metals (lead, cadmium, mercury, copper) due to mining activities. Read more...
