Nanotechnology paves the way for a new era of land remediation

An EU initiative looked into ways of using nanotechnology to remediate land contaminated by agricultural or industrial waste.

Recent estimates suggest that there are as many as 2.5 million human-contaminated sites in Europe alone. To achieve the EU’s goals of cleaning these up by 2050, more drastic solutions than those currently available need to be researched. To address this, the EU-funded NANOREM project developed and tested nanotechnological tools to remediate contaminated land in Europe.

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