Engineered plants demolish toxic waste

Vegetation may clean up pollution with some help from bacteria

Quanta Resources Superfund Site

GREEN CLEAN  Using genes from waste-munching microbes, plants may help clean up harmful chemicals in contaminated areas such as the Quanta Resources Superfund Site in Edgewater, N.J.

 

Courtesy of EPA

Greenery may one day clean up the chemical fallout of oil spills and air pollution.