“Phytoremediation is the use of green plants to remove pollutants from the environment or render them harmless.
Plants are truly amazing, when we find a problem in our bodies or our land, it is often that a remedy is found in nature. After the industrial revolution, there are large patches of land all across the world that are in desperate need of Phytoremediation.
Land located near manufacturing plants may also benefit greatly from following the techniques listed here to cleanse the soil of toxins, metals and pollutants.
An interesting perspective – nuclear waste clean-up. As I studied this topic, there is much discussion of Chernobyl and the plants used to clean the areas around the nuclear disaster….”