Research Proposal on Phytoremediation of Toxins from the Environment



Research Proposal on Phytoremediation of Toxins from the Environment

Introduction

In the second half of the twentieth century, people viewed many environmental disasters as the Lake Erie's and Lake Ontario's pollution (International Joint Commission, 1970), the exploration of the toxic waste under the community of Love Canal of New York, and the deaths due to smog of more than 4,000 citizens in London (Levine, 1982). Such pervasive pollution attained extensive public attention and carried out some monumental modifications in the society of America. Presently, around 300,000 to 400,000 hazardous sites of waste in ...