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So, in the end, are you left with contaminated willow wood with heavy metals inside of it? How deep does the willow plant remediate?

You're left with a much smaller volume of willow wood than the original soil. Wood that could be then be dried to reduce its weight even more.

It could then be used as a biofuel in a fluidized bed reactor specifically created to handle such heavy metal dense fuel, as suggested in this paper.[1] Most of the heavy metals remain in the ash, the cadmium needs to be trapped in the exhaust.

  1 - https://sci-hub.se/https://doi.org/10.1016/j.biombioe.2011.12.025
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