Phytoremediation

Landfill leachate is an important pollution factor resulting from municipal landfill sites. Due to low biodegradability, high nitrogen content and other possible toxic components of the leachate, the co-treatment of leachate on conventional municipal wastewater (WW) treatment plants is undesirable.

The contamination of the water resource is a critical environmental issue. PHYTOREM1, a French company specialized in phytoremediation, has patented an innovative technology using temperate bamboos to treat wastewater. The latter is evenly spread over a bamboo grove and supplies water and nutrients

This study investigates the influence of widely ranged soil cadmium and nickel content on the biomass quantity and quality produced by Arundo donax L. (giant reed). The aim was to determine whether giant reed is hypertolerant to these heavy metals and therefore could exploit polluted sites, which co