Onions and garlic could be used to capture heavy metals

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Onion and garlic waste might be utilized to mop-up heavy metal pollutants (Photo: Shutterstock)

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They may taste great on a pizza, but could onions and garlic be used to help clean up hazardous heavy metals? Research conducted at GGS Indraprastha University in Delhi, India, suggests this is indeed the case.

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