Quebec engineer pioneers oil-spill cleanup using milkweed

Monday, December 1, 2014 - 16:20 in Biology & Nature

A Quebec company is taking a unique approach to cleaning up oil spills by producing the world's only industrial crop of milkweed that will be used as new kind of absorbent. And there's a bonus: growing more milkweed also helps conserve the habitat-stressed monarch butterfly.

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