Researchers use plant waste to remove heavy metals from water

Scientists from Singapore and Switzerland find a way to filter out heavy metal ions from contaminated water using proteins made from vegetable oil industry leftovers.

A membrane formed from a waste byproduct of the production of vegetable oil was developed by researchers from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore (NTU Singapore) and ETH Zurich, Switzerland (ETHZ), to filter out heavy metals from contaminated water.

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