Published on February 18, 2020.

Specifically, it is known that soil contamination by heavy metals due to various anthropogenic activities can cause the deterioration of soil quality, limiting its use for food production, for this reason, for several years a multidisciplinary team, made up of scientists from countries such as Australia, China and researchers from the Polytechnic University of Madrid, have confirmed that magnetic biochar is an excellent cleaning method for soils contaminated with multiple heavy metals, verifying that the surface modification of biochar by magnetization reduces the mobility of these metals and increases the plant growth.

The preparation of biochar from different types of biomass such such as chicken manure or eucalyptus wood can have an effect positive in reducing the leaching of heavy metals in soils multi-contaminated by heavy metals, which that helps to watch over the environment remediating environment land.

If you want to learn more about this topic, we invite you to read “Utilizan biocarbón magnético para descontaminar suelos”.