Plants offer hope for cleaning up heavy metal pollution in soil
Phytoremediation is a green method to clean up soil contaminated with heavy metals. Plants can help by extracting, stabilizing, transforming, or releasing these metals. However, plants alone may not be enough to fully clean the soil. Scientists are exploring ways to combine plant-based methods with other technologies to improve the effectiveness of phytoremediation. Current research focuses on metals like cadmium, arsenic, and lead.