Aug 28, 2018
Offshoots, Inc is preparing a phytobuffer site. At a family-owned natural stone supplier, Offshoots’s team is taking down a small set of Spruce to clear the way for poplars to protect the site and groundwater from a petroleum leak that occurred on the site. High...
Aug 27, 2018
Article from the European Commission Community Research and Development Information Service (CORDIS). E.U. has funded Phyto2Energy Initiative studies potential of using plants grown for biomass to also remediate pollutants from the soil. Chelators (soil additives) may...
Aug 27, 2018
New article in the Journal of Hazardous Materials found on ScienceDirect. With the growing attention of functional green walls for their air cleaning abilities, this study concerns the possibility of increasing their remediation abilities by adjusting the substrate....
Aug 20, 2018
An Article from The Conversation: U.K. tests phytoremediation potential of fast-growing Eichhornia crassipes (water hyacinth) with promising results. Because the water hyacinth is invasive, testing plants were arranged in pods in the river to keep the species...
Aug 17, 2018
Article from the Mountain Express: using phytoremediation to clean up a brownfield site sitting next to the French Broad River Park in Asheville, NC that had previously been an auto junkyard for more than 40 years. With the initial work started in 2011, the park could...
