With the advent of industrialisation, the earth has suffered massive environmental damage.Pollution is most sever in third world nations but is ever present in industrialised nations.Pesticide, oil and fuel dumping, leaching of wastes from landfills, and direct discharge of industrial wastes contaminate the soil.The most common chemicals found in contaminated soil are petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, pesticides, lead and other heavy metals.Soil remediation techniques are being developed and redeveloped by scientists in order to restore contaminated soil back to health.These processes are typically expensive and tedious.They are however absolutely necessary as the health dangers posed by contaminated soil are plenty.Cancer, congenital disorders, and chronic illnesses may be triggered.Ecosystems within and around the vicinity are also affected.
Some soil remediation techniques are excavation and dredging, aeration, thermal remediation, bioremediation, phytoremediation, and electromechanical extraction of groundwater.Soil is also harmed by over salinity and aridness apart from biohazard contamination.Scientists have developed new performance enhancing plants that offer up practical and ingenious soil remediation techniques.Performance enhancing plants are bred to positively impact the earth.They provide solutions for a number of environmental issues.They offer a source of renewable energy with enriched syngas and biochar, are 50% more effective at absorbing carbon dioxide, have the ability to significantly improve the quality and availability of water and soil, can yield about 30% more than their mono-genomic or bi-genomic parents given the same growing environment.This means that with the same method you would grow a normal plant, you can grow performance enhancing plants and expect much more impactful mechanisms for generating renewable energy, carbon capture and storage, water and soil remediation techniques, forestry, and overall global warming management.
There are efforts to restore nature and adopt a sustainable lifestyle and among these are the soil remediation techniques.The whole world needs to adopt this position and give this issue high priority in order for substantial changes to manifest. New technologies offer a beacon of hope but also hopefully, it isn’t too little too late.
