Flowers grown on inexpensive floating platforms can help clean polluted waterways, over 12 weeks extracting 52 percent more phosphorus and 36 percent more nitrogen than the natural nitrogen cycle ...

These floating devices meet all ecological, environmental and economic ways of treating the problem sustainably,” said Krish Jayachandran, and FIU professor of Agroecology the project’s advisor.

FIU researchers have positive results for flowers’ ability to clean polluted Miami canals, with marigolds removing 52% more phosphorus and 36% more nitrogen than nature.

How floating cut-flower farms can clean polluted waterways. One of us (Locke-Rodriguez) is expanding this research and working to scale up floating farms in South Florida as a demonstration of what ...