I was looking through a science news website and read an interesting article on the use of orange peels. Waterways in Algeria are pretty grungy looking due to the high amount of chemicals and dye dumped in the water by industries. Normally they try to clean this up with expensive chemicals (cleaning chemicals using chemicals...hmmm) so they came up with an alternative way of soaking up these chemicals and dyes naturally, ORANGE PEELS! They did a small controlled study and it seemed to work great with four major chemicals/dyes so now they just have to do a little more research to replicate these results but in a bigger scale. If all goes well, we soon might see orange peels floating around in our waterways. Hopefully they look into how this might affect the aquatic ecosystem in the long run.
Wanna read up on it, check it out at : http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2008/10/081020093500.htm
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