As regards your question about information about commercial phytoremediation in the UK try contacting the following people

1. "Bram Miller"
   He is a student on the Environmental Masters MSc at the University of Nottingham. He has recently carried out a library based project as well as a research dissertation in which he investigated issues within the general field of phytoremediation.

2. "Drusilla Riddell-Black"
   She works for WRc and they have just received 50 % funding for a ECU 1.5 million project from the EEC (DGXII) to develop a method for remediating land contaminated with heavy metals using biomass fuel crops.'

   The project (known as BIORENEW) is seeking collaborators/funds (£ 75,000 pa) from organisations within Europe

3. "Dra. Amparo Cortés Lucas"
   He is in the Soil Science Department at the Universitat de Barcelona

4. Rich Meagher
   He is Molecular Biologist at the University of Georgia. He working with "Arabidosis Thaliana" (related to the cabbage) which absorbs Mercury and can be harvested every two months. (I have not got an email address for him, but try sending a message to the "postmaster" at the University of Georgia)

5. Peter Goldsbrough
   He is a Professor of Genetics at Purdue University Indiana,, He is looking at Cadmium + Mercury absorbtion and partitioning and studying the detoxifying effect of naturally occurring phytochelatin and metallothionin. (I have not got an email address for him, but try sending a message to the "postmaster" at Purdue University )

6. "David Glass"
   His organisation (D. Glass Associates, Inc) have just published a market report entitled The 1998 U.S. Market for Phytoremediation. I am sure he could give you some leads.

There are few projects done on phytoremediation. There is one company I know of in the UK doing work in the area, their details are :-

Westlakes, Scentific consulting, Princess Royal Building. Westlakes Science and Technology Park, Moor Row, Cumbria. CA24 3LN. Fax 01946 514040.

I will be mailing you tomorrow the information you requested about my phyto report, but let me answer this inquiry as well.

There are numerous contractors in the US who have conducted pilot and full scale phytoremediation projects. Several of these will be listed in one of the items I'm mailing to you, a detailed write-up in the journal "The Hazardous Waste Consultant", that was based on my report.

I will also send you the company contact list from my phyto report, which will give you information on how to contact some of the better known phyto practitioners.

Among companies you might want to contact are

• Phytokinetics (Utah),
• Ecolotree (Iowa),
• Applied Natural Sciences (Ohio),
• ARCADIS Geraghty & Miller (Milwaukee office)
• CH2M Hill (Portland, Oregon office).

You might also wish to contact Steve Rock at the US EPA, who is compiling an extensive database on phyto field projects, that will soon be available on the web.

I don't have any of the specific documents you've asked about (e.g., work plan, etc.), but you might be able to obtain some from one of the contractors (if not confidential) or from Steve Rock. There may also be some phyto protocols accessible either from the RTDF website or from the links at the Kansas State University phytoremediation page