[CH] phytoremediation
Byron (byronbromley@tellink.net)
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 17:27:16 -0500
I think Sunflower is also used for
lead removal
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have an article in this months local growing mag about sunflowers, which I
think you may find interesting....
"Studies have found that sunflowers act like natural vacuum cleaners when it
comes to cleaning up contaminated soils and polluted groundwater.By a
process known as phytoremediation, the plants suck contaminants out of the
soil and store them in their stem tissue for easy disposal.
In the early 1990's, a New Jersey company planted sunflowers around a badly
polluted pond near the Chernobyl nuclear plant.The plants removed 95 per
cent of the radioactive strontium in the soil"