VINEGAR CLEANS TOXIC WASTE SAY SCIENTISTS
March 1st, 2009
BY MONICA DOBIE
BRITISH scientists have found there's a lot more to vinegar than splashing it on your chips: it could help cleanse polluted groundwater and prevent disease. Environmental health specialists at the University of Leeds have found adding dilute acetic acid (vinegar) to contaminated water from landfills containing waste from now-closed industrial factories can make polluted run-off cleanse itself. Their target is harmful chromium compounds found in groundwater at sites with waste from former UK textile factories, smelters, and tanneries. Research has ...
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