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Plants and microbes cooperate to clean up contaminated soil
Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on 10.01.14
It is expensive to clean up soil drenched in chemicals, but plants can do part of the work in collaboration with microbes. Microbe-based phytoremediation is gradually making inroads into Finland. Finland has no shortage of sites that were formerly home to a wood impregnation plant, foundry or landfill.
