Thanks for the article link, I'll explore it in detail. In regards to building raised beds: Thank you for the creative approach and advice. Unfortunately, during the coming decades in New Zealand, we

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If you do want to get more into environmental engineering: https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/s42773-020-00053-3 Brenton Ladd has done some highly interesting work worth checking.

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Dick, Material options to use for raised beds... depending on time, scale, budget and location.... 1. Hypertufa with biochar added... 2. IBC frame skin'd with large bubble wrap as a small mobile green

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Great suggestions Mike and what do you use for raised beds? I've offered to donate black locust to the City, for raised beds in their parks. With 2 opposing sides sawed flat, how well does anyone thin

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Shaked, If you friend wants to be a grower rather than enviromental engineer than an approach to consider is to start with 2000sf and cover it with permeable poly-fabric and build raised beds filled w

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Hi, I'm looking for advice on practical soil remediation from high levels of copper. A friend is starting an organic market garden on land that is not yet certified. He is starting with a quarter acre

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Here is a link to the original article. It is open access. Batch and Continuous Fixed-Bed Lead Removal Using Himalayan Pine Needle Biochar: Isotherm and Kinetic Studies Batch and Continuous Fixed-Bed

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Hi Muriel, That looks like an interesting article, but it’s behind a paywall. If you have a subscription to The Economist, could you copy and paste the article here? Thanks. Kim

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in india https://www.economist.com/science-and-technology/2020/07/18/stopping-pollution-with-pine-needles Muriel Strand, P.E. Advertising is a private tax. - Andre Schiffrin www.bio-paradigm.blogspot.

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Tom, Thanks for posting this. Hugely important where we are working in Africa. It will be particularly useful convincing the South Africans who for whatever reason seem to be singularity resistant. M

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The article from the meta study in Ghana ends with these words: there is an urgent need to determine optimum biochar options for toxic metal polluted water and soil with practical applications. Biocha

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This sounds good. I will have a good look later. It will be quite useful to me. Kwame Prof. Kwame Agyei Frimpong (Associate Professor in Soil Science & Soil Fertility) Department of Soil Science, Scho

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Background. Mining, waste disposal, and agrochemical residues have contributed to pollution of water and soil with toxic metals in most low- and middle-income countries, raising concerns of ecological

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