The present invention uses fish bones and fish hard parts to remediate, clean-up, stabilize, immobilize, or otherwise treat
metal-
contaminated water, soil or waste of any sort. The fish bones and fish hard parts can be mixed in with soils and wastes, or emplaced as a
permeable reactive barrier in a trench or excavation, or emplaced as a liner or barrier surrounding a waste form, disposal site, or contaminated site. All that is needed is intimate contact between the fish bones and fish hard parts and the contaminated waste form, soil particles, or water. In a
system of, for example, soil, waste,
groundwater,
surface water, waste streams, or the digestive tracts of animals, the presence of fish bones and fish hard parts reduces the amount of
metal that can mobilize and migrate out of the
system. Fish bones and fish hard parts remove metals from waters passing through the
system or originating within the system. Fish bones and fish hard parts reduce the
bioavailability of metals to organisms coming into contact with the system and from water leaving the system. The fish bones and fish hard parts can be mixed with any other material, e.g., gravel, sand, clay, zeolites, soils of all types,
iron filings,
cement,
compost,
straw, or organics of all types.