Penn State Harrisburg graduate students in environmental pollution control Rizki Prasetyaningtyas and Saskia Putri have been eating lots of bananas and oranges. So have their classmates at Penn State Harrisburg, as well as all their friends and neighbors. They have made banana bread, banana pancakes and loads of slushies.
All this fruit consumption has a purpose. The two students, who are both from Indonesia, are testing whether fruit peels can be used to remove heavy metals from wastewater coming from textile mills. They didn’t realize how many peels they would need to test their theory…
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