PHYTO – Case Study – Ford Motor Company Factory

PHYTO – Case Study – Ford Motor Company Factory

Project Name:  Ford Motor Company Factory (Barac et al 1999) Location: Genk, Belgium Scientists: Tanja Barac (a); Nele Weyens (a); Licy Oeyen (a); Safiyh Taghavi (b); Daniel van der Lelie (b); Dirk Dubin (c); Marco Spliet (d); Jaco Vangronsveld (a) Institutions: (a)...
Prepping Site for a Phytobuffer

Prepping Site for a Phytobuffer

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...
Green Wall Planting Medium Matters for Air Pollution Removal

Green Wall Planting Medium Matters for Air Pollution Removal

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....
Testing Prolific Growth Aquatic Plants to Remediate Metal Pollutants

Testing Prolific Growth Aquatic Plants to Remediate Metal Pollutants

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...