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You might be interested in sunflowers and how they were used to clean up the contamination after the Chernobyl disaster.
It is believed this method accounted for removing 95% of radiation from polluted water after Chernobyl."
Anyway to the real point, I have informally put forward the phytoremediation/bioremediation approach on a number of occasions, the argument falls on deaf ears. The law regarding contamination responsibility, and the lack of skilled planning officers (prepared to think independantely) means that any potential for human contact with contaminants means remove the source.
A recent re-development of a residential plot I dealt with was flagged up as contaminated, the levels were not high or extensive and a few such as nickel were purely phytotoxic (no human threat) in this case only 0.9mg/kg over threshold limit. The Planning Section insisted on the removal of the contaminated topsoil to a hazardous waste landfill. So 38 tonnes of marginally contaminated topsoil to be removed to landfill and replaced by clean tested topsoil - How sustainable is this approach.
If anybody could provide me with any referenced scientific research info on bio/phyto-remediation they have come across I will look into it and see if I can use it to break the source-pathway-receptor link enough to satisfy planning considerations.