Common garden plants are to be used to clean polluted land with the waste produced used to further medical research.
Scientists will use plants such as alyssum, ferns and a type of mustard called sinapi to soak up metals from derelict land previously occupied by factories, mines and landfill sites.
Some former industrial land contains high levels of metals such as arsenic and platinum, which can cause harm to people and animals.
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