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Indigenous research team shows hemp can clean up PFAS

Indigenous research team shows hemp can clean up PFAS

October 14, 2024 |

In Maine, scientists from the Aroostook Band of Micmacs, an indigenous tribe located in Northern Maine, have found that hemp can remove notorious forever chemical PFAS from soil. Chelli Stanley and the tribe’s Vice Chief, Richard Silliboy, found that hemp’s thick roots absorbed the chemicals into their shoots. The plants grew quickly and without much […]

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