Water Hyacinths can help clean up polluted water when grown in artificial wetlands, but nanoplastic pollution could dramatically reduce their efficiency.
Tag - microplastics
Dale Maylea
Can Botany help remove microplastics from the environment?
The answer is not a simple yes, but research suggests that plants could help clean up the planet in several different directions.
Alun Salt
A carnivorous plant suffers poisoning from microplastics
Botanists identify microplastics entering traps as reducing the growth of a carnivorous plant.
Plastic plants?! Nanoplastics may be bad news for plants too.
More evidence that the damaging potential of small plastics needs to extend to terrestrial environments.
Liam Elliott