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  • From: Scott Pittman <pci@permaculture-inst.org>
  • To: "permaculture" <permaculture@franklin.oit.unc.edu>
  • Subject: Re: plant beds for treatment of rinse water from metal sculpture studio
  • Date: Mon, 16 Oct 2000 12:40:26 -0600

I would check out fungi perfecti or Paul Stamets who has done a lot of work on using mushrooms for cleaning up toxic waste.  Since you are in good mushroom country this might be the best approach.  I believe that Fungi Perfecti has a web site.

Good luck!
Scott

At 01:50 PM 10/14/00 -0400, you wrote:
I'm looking for advice on how to use plants to clean rinse water of
various VOCs like various glycol ethers, also sometimes very alkaline
metal cleaners, other times acidic zinc/phosphoric acid metal cleaners.
All the materials are waterbased, and the rinse water has a pretty low
concentration of the materials.  It seems possible that the right
selection of plants, in some kind of special treatment area, could clean
the water from my studio before it reaches groundwater.



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