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Flowers grown floating on polluted waterways can help clean up nutrient runoff and turn a profit

  • Written by Jazmin Locke-Rodriguez, Post Doctoral Associate in the Institute of Environment, Florida International University
imageThe cut flowers could pay for themselves and even turn a profit.Margi Rentis, CC BY-ND

Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52% more phosphorus and 36% more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle removes from untreated water, according to our new research. In addition to...

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