Ottawa’s polluted old industrial sites may be cleaned up with echinacea – a flower normally used to cure colds – after a research project carried out on Victoria Island showed “promising” signs that the plant can help break down toxic soils.
Wiki CommonsUniversity of Ottawa researchers hope the echinacea flower can be used to decontaminate polluted soil.
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