ABSTRACT
Soil contamination with heavy toxic metals is a major environmental problem caused by global industrialization. Conventional soil remediation methods are expensive and not environmentally friendly. The new technology, phytoremediation, is the use of green plants to clean the environment of pollutants and is presented as an affordable and non-destructive alternative to traditional methods. For this reason, phytoremediation is a promising way to improve the soil, which can easily absorb heavy metals and toxic substances and remove them from the soil. In this chapter, phytoremediation, its various methods, its advantages over other methods, and finally its future perspectives are discussed.
