Jump to content

Log in or register to remove this advert

Engineered Poplars to clean contamination sites


-Mikey-
 Share

Recommended Posts

Bio-acumulation is nothing new. Birch and Sycamore are used down here by AI et al for mine spoil decon. Many bioacumulators inc soft plants are seeded and harvested with quite considerable heavy metal uplift.

 

Way back in the days of flower power a mate was studying shellfish in the Tawe estuary for a degree. This river collected run off from all the mines up the valley that had been sources for lead, tin zinc etc.

 

He reckoned that the shells were within an order of magnitude of being smelted to recover the heavy metals.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Log in or register to remove this advert

Poplars must be one of the best for the cleaning up the environment, werent all the Black Poplars planted around the northwest in the early 1900's to help clean the pollution from the air that all the cotton mills were producing?

Shame that they have all mostly been lost to Venturii now.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Poplars must be one of the best for the cleaning up the environment, werent all the Black Poplars planted around the northwest in the early 1900's to help clean the pollution from the air that all the cotton mills were producing?

Shame that they have all mostly been lost to Venturii now.

 

There's still quite a few hanging on though, seen some nice specimens out and about in Manchester:biggrin:

 

Sent from my Galaxy S2

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Thanks for the extra info Pedroski; I'll make a brew and have a read later!!

My personal Interest lies more with the engineering for a specific end use (and greater efficiency). It is exciting to see a (semi-) natural solution to some of the environmental problems we are realising. Along with other developments like I-Tree this can surely provide a better future for urban planting and tree management.

Other than improved environmental aspects it would be interesting to see an improvement to maximum sizes (big fan of forest giants); just a shame I'd never get to climb any in my lifetime!!

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Very positive. Shame they won't be doing much remediation in the winter...

 

But as has been said, this is development rather than innovation. Even the Victorians did it. It gets my vote though and should, in my opinion, be more widely used as a supplementary technology.

Link to comment
Share on other sites

Create an account or sign in to comment

You need to be a member in order to leave a comment

Create an account

Sign up for a new account in our community. It's easy!

Register a new account

Sign in

Already have an account? Sign in here.

Sign In Now
 Share

  •  

  • Featured Adverts

About

Arbtalk.co.uk is a hub for the arboriculture industry in the UK.  
If you're just starting out and you need business, equipment, tech or training support you're in the right place.  If you've done it, made it, got a van load of oily t-shirts and have decided to give something back by sharing your knowledge or wisdom,  then you're welcome too.
If you would like to contribute to making this industry more effective and safe then welcome.
Just like a living tree, it'll always be a work in progress.
Please have a look around, sign up, share and contribute the best you have.

See you inside.

The Arbtalk Team

Follow us

×
×
  • Create New...

Important Information

We have placed cookies on your device to help make this website better. You can adjust your cookie settings, otherwise we'll assume you're okay to continue.