Contamination of Soil with Pb and Sb at a Lead-Acid Battery Dumpsite and Their Potential Early Uptake by Phragmites australis

Figure 1

(a) Battery breaking and (b) slag dumpsite with dead vetiver grass within 3 days of planting, at a Lead-Acid Battery recycling and smelting site in Norton, Zimbabwe. (c) P. australis rhizomes before preparation for planting and (d) P. australis growing in an experimental bed of soil with recycled slag.