New tool prioritizes landfill pollutants for environmental clean-up (IMAGE)

USDA Forest Service - Northern Research Station

New tool prioritizes landfill pollutants for environmental clean-up

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A research team from the USDA Forest Service and the University of Missouri has developed a new contaminant prioritization tool that has the potential to increase the effectiveness of environmental approaches to landfill clean-up. Photograph shows an agroforestry phytoremediation buffer system in southeastern Wisconsin.

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Paul Manley, Missouri University of Science and Technology; used with permission

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