Image: Flickr via Roberto Verzo

Veles, a town in northern Macedonia where industrial pollution has left the soil with heavy metals seven times over the international safety limit, thinks it has found a solution: plants. Specifically, roses.

The problem stems from a lead and zinc smelter that has left a 30-year legacy of contamination but claimed no responsibility for cleanup. Residents aren’t getting much help, from the government, either. … Read the full story on TreeHugger
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