ScholarPeer’s latest research news and reporting from Agro-Environmental Protection Institute. Agro-Environmental Protection Institute is a public research institute of the Chinese Academy of Agricultural Sciences focused on agricultural and rural environmental science, monitoring, pollution control, and sustainable farming. Its researchers study contaminated farmland remediation, agro-product safety, low-carbon agriculture, rural environmental management, and pollution prevention, developing technologies and evidence to support safer food production, healthier ecosystems, and more sustainable agricultural systems.
Contaminated crop residue does not have to be burned or buried. A review of pyrolysis studies finds that heating it slowly, away from oxygen, can trap most heavy metals in place while producing charcoal, oil and gas with real uses.