Pig poop used to clean up polluted waters.

[NNadir]

HELSINKI (Reuters) - Finnish engineers have poured pig manure into a contaminated pond next to an old mine, saying the bacteria in the slurry will clean up metals in the water.

Mining company Outokumpu dumped 450 cubic meters of pig slurry into the waste water near the closed Kangasjarvi mine, which once produced zinc, copper and sulfur.

"Pig slurry contains bacteria that bind metals that are in the mine water and they will sink to the bottom. We have used this system to clean mine waters at various mines," Eero Soininen, Outokumpu's mine reclamation manager, told Reuters.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060721/sc_nm/finland_mine_dc

[eppur_se_muova]

1. Two wrongs make a right? Strange. nt

[NNadir]

2. Some of these bioremdiation strategies work pretty well.

However it is possible that they were just looking for an excuse to justify dumping pig shit in the pond.

:-)

[eppur_se_muova]

3. They're just in bed with the pigshit producers.

:evilgrin:

[NNadir]

4. I knew it.

Halliburton is involved in the pig shit business.

Without being rude, here's the pig shit in chief:

[Javaman]

5. Um, that's nice but what do you do with the slurry when it's done?

Nice to know that pig poop can do this, but after the job is done and the water is "clean", what becomes of the bacteria with the heavy metals?

Or am I just raining on the parade here?