Phytocapping: Growing Plants And Trees On Dumps Could Help Save The Planet

Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases, methane and carbon dioxide, as putrescible waste decays. Growing plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as ‘Phytocapping’, could reduce the production and release of these gases, according to Australian scientists writing in a forthcoming issue of International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management.

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Filed under: Public Health on November 25th, 2008