by planting Hemp crops, a subspecies of Cannabis to remediate the soil and water sources.
Certain plants are known for cleaning toxic soil and groundwater. This is known as phytoremediation, an affordable method to repair the environment from deadly contaminants. Industrial Hemp does just this! Cannabis as a species can remediate or remove toxic waste from different soils, sludges, sediments, surface water and groundwater through accumulation and concentration.
Industrial hemp is an ideal choice for phytoremediation as it's fast growing, has deep roots and unaffected by toxins that accumulate from the air, soil and water during growth. Grown in large crops, industrial hemp plants can quickly remove vast amounts of toxic pollution.
Hemp is at the forefront of change. Possessing the ability to correct the most toxic and heavily damaged places on earth. Such as former nuclear waste dump sites.
Lake Karachay, located in the southern Ural Mountains in Russia, considered one of the most polluted places on Earth, as it was a nuclear waste-dumping site for decades. Spending just 10 minutes near the lake unprotected can kill a person.
In 1957, the lake dried out and radioactive dust was carried by the wind irradiating half a million people with the toxic radiation equivalent of the atomic bomb dropped on Hiroshima. Demonstrating the potential of unaddressed toxic waste, all of which NEEDS to be properly disposed of.
Hemp holds the key to cleaning up our future. Spearheading deadly jobs not even the most advanced technology and machinery can touch. It's just too expensive! Why not plant one of the most advanced dynamic plants on Earth to remediate our most valuable resources.
-Amanda Reka Bradder
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