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PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ORGANIC AND NUTRIENT CONTAMINANTS
Citation:
Schnoor, J., L. Licht, S. McCutcheon, N. Wolfe, L.H., AND Carreira. PHYTOREMEDIATION OF ORGANIC AND NUTRIENT CONTAMINANTS. U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Washington, D.C., EPA/600/J-95/415.
Description:
Phytoremediation, the use of vegetation for the in situ treatment of contaminated soils and sediments, is an emerging technology that promises effective and inexpensive cleanup of certain hazardous waste sites. otential applications of phytoremediation would be bioremediation of spill sites and storage areas contaminated with petrochemicals, ammunition wastes, and chlorinated solvents; of landfill leachates; and of agricultural nonpoint source runoff (i.e., pesticides and fertilizers). he technology holds great promise. n general, plants can withstand greater concentrations of organic pollutants than can most microorganisms; they can take up the chemicals quickly and convert them to less toxic metabolites, and they are known to stimulate degradation of organics in the rhizosphere.