Crop waste can be very useful

AGRICULTURAL waste can be used to rapidly filter lead from wastewater, new Edith Cowan University (ECU) research has found.

Crop waste such as canola stalks could be used to filter wastewater. Picture Mark Saunders

29 October 2018
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An ECU study in Western Australia found that canola stalks and lupin straw, which currently have no commercial use and are generally burnt after harvest, can strip up to 98.

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