EU-funded researchers are turning to nature’s very own clean-up crew to tackle toxic industrial soil pollution.
By Ali Jones
Outside the mountain town of Sabiñánigo in northern Spain, an abandoned chemical factory stands on land still scarred by decades of Lindane production – a pesticide now banned worldwide – which left behind thousands of tonnes of toxic waste.
Production ended in the 1980s, but the pesticide’s main by-product, hexachlorocyclohexane (HCH),
