Re: [CH] phytoremediation

Bruce (blacksheep@awwwsome.com)
Wed, 20 Feb 2002 21:43:28 -0800

Habaneros grown in radioactive soil...A new meaning to
"hot" chile.

Bruce

----- Original Message -----
From: Byron <byronbromley@tellink.net>
To: <chile-heads@globalgarden.com>
Sent: Wednesday, February 20, 2002 2:27 PM
Subject: [CH] phytoremediation


> 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"