Phytocapping: new technique reduces GHG emissions from landfill sites and turns them into green oases
Read the full post at Biopact.
Landfill sites produce the greenhouse gases methane and carbon dioxide, as putrescible waste decays. Growing selected plants and trees on top of a landfill, a process known as ‘phytocapping’, could reduce the production and release of these gases, according to Australian scientists writing in a forthcoming issue of International Journal of Environmental Technology and Management. What is more, the technique allows urban communities to build new green spaces in and around their cities. When phytocapping is carried out well, the former garbage sites can even become biodiversity corridors for species that were previously chased out of the city-scape.
Phytocapping is such an elegant solution to a rather inelegant problem! Feel free to stop by my blog to learn more about phytocapping.
Comment by Phytocapping — January 10, 2009 @ 7:37 am