Corn-based heavy metal attractants.

Agricultural Research | July 1, 1998 | Copyright

Heavy metals - lead, copper, zinc, and others - in wastewater are a weighty problem for U.S. industries. Stringent environmental regulations require treatment of wastewater to remove heavy metals and other contaminants before it can be discharged into public waterways. This is expensive and time consuming for companies, and it drives up the cost of consumer goods. To alleviate this problem, Robert E. Wing and David J. Sessa, a team of chemists at the U.S. Department of Agriculture's National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research at Peoria, Illinois, found a way to use ...

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