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Waste Water Treated by Willow Trees?

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Nancy Kenney
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In the Science of The Total Environment, there is a study on the use of planting willow trees as a means to wastewater treatment. A team of researchers from various universities in Canada and the United Kingdom published their findings entitled Biorefinery potential of sustainable municipal wastewater treatment using fast-growing willow, that investigated a plantation of willow trees in Quebec and found that willow trees were able to not only filter primary wastewater but benefit from its nutrients too. 

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https://www.popsci.com/environment/willow-trees-wastewater/  

https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S0048969721032174

...is the way we are currently treating wastewater the best way to go? A team of researchers from various universities in Canada and the United Kingdom may have found a sustainable solution—planting willow trees.
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