What can abandoned and heavily contaminated sites be used for?
12 March 2010
BioReGen project of Teesside University Thousands of sites spread all over the world are contaminated by industrial activities and vacant in a derelict state. A team of researchers from the University of Teesside (UK) found a solution to reuse brownfield sites in an efficient way.
The idea is to plant crops which can be used for producing renewable energy in a ‘‘carbon neutral’’ way. They can be burnt as biofuel, in fact, and the carbon dioxide produced in the process can be absorbed by the growing crop fields.

The project is called “BioReGen” which stands for “Biomass, Remediation reGeneration: Re-using brownfield sites for renewable energy crops", and it is a 4-5 years project funded by the European programme Life III Environment.

For further information please visit:

http://www.bioregen.eu/project"
 

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