I'm working on a project to use sunflowers to remediate the soil. But in order to design the prototype and test the effectiveness, how do you test whether concentration of heavy metals in the soil after planting hyperaccumulator plants is lower? Any recommendations for testkits or cheaper ways to test soil's heavy metal level? Thanks!

Hey guys, I'm trying to fix up and old flowerbed that I know previous users have dumped used motor oil in after an oil change. I want to grow edible plants and herbs in there at some point, so I would like to try and remediate the soil a bit first. Do y'all know of any plants specifically useful for removing oil from soil? Also, I had some potatoes sprouting eyes, so I planted them out there, does anyone know if potatoes will absorb oil?

Imagine a 60’s era Titan missile complex drenched in TCE and neglected by an apathetic local government just waiting for a group of ragtag scientists, grant writers, influencers and plant lovers to figure it out!Anyone with experience or advice about embarking on such an idealistic goal as this would be of huge help. 🙏

Hello! I’m interested in phytoremediation for wastewater projects and was wondering if there are still folk using this community?

We want to phytoremediate water from a tarmac road to use for our farm.

We need to remove trace petroleum products, brake dust and tire / rubber particulate and it’s assorted chemicals.

Importantly, we’d like to identify plants / processes that can do this with as little water extraction as possible. We want to use the after-process water for crop irrigation.

We have one mile of roadway water to decontaminate.

Thoughts?

Is there is any difference about its purification process on Carbon Dioxide (CO2)?

was thinking about indian mustard, maybe. open to suggestions.

Hello

Does anyone know of the benefits of vetiver grass? I'm looking to use it to clean lead contaminants in the soil. I also heard Indian grass is great but not sure

lot of trash in there too. I heard of some plants like switchgrass and indian grass but i wonder if i should let it be or i will have to remove the plant once it's dead to avid recontaminating the soil. from some abstracts that i have read it seems i can just leave it there.

Hello everyone, I own agricultural grassland in an area with heavy rainfall.

A regional highway passes at the top of my land and the roadway sheet is directed to runoff points that then enter my fields. That situation can’t change.

What I would like to do is divert that water in to a multi-pond system for single or multiple stage phytoremediation and then use it to irrigate my fields minus the roadway pollutants. My interest was prompted by salmon die-offs in the PNW:

https://www.pugetsoundinstitute.org/2021/08/discovery-of-tire-related-chemical-that-kills-coho-salmon-sparks-widespread-response/

My land is in the European Union.

Is there a system for this sort of remediation that anyone can point me towards?

Thank you!

Day 4 of 12 Days of Restoration lead us to Will Lewis of Sequence Environmental who has a vision to integrate drones into water quality monitoring process, reducing the cost of sample collection by 10x , which can help prove your phytoremediation effectiveness.

https://youtu.be/Zbwq-2qVxyY