Sewage treatment removes widely used home and garden insecticides from wastewater

Thursday, September 12, 2013 - 20:00 in Biology & Nature

Even though sewage treatment plants are not designed to remove tiny amounts of pesticides, they do an excellent job of dealing with the most widely used family of home and garden insecticides, scientists report. The study focused on pyrethroid insecticides.

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