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Soil pollution by electronic waste: The affection of batteries on the growing of lettuce and radish seeds and seedling.
Organization(s):Al Faruk Elementary School
Country:Israel
Student(s):sadeen abu hussain/ sarah badran/ hala bsheer/razab bsheer/ghazal bsheer/malak bsheer/israa jaabees/raghd jaafri/ sundus jaafar/areej jalajil/hilwi zahaika/rayan sawahrih/oroub shqairat/malak surri/nagham surri/shahd obeidat/mays obeidat/wijdan esawi/amani qunbar/batool halasi/maraim halasi/narmeen halasi
Grade Level:Lower Primary (grades K-2, ages 5-8)
GLOBE Teacher:Nour Bakri
Contributors:samah tawfiq "teacher"
Report Type(s):Standard Research Report
Protocols:Soil Characterization, Green-Up / Green-Down
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Date Submitted:04/10/2019
At recent days the use of batteries has increased excessively due to the increased use of electrical and electronic appliances, which led to increased throwing of batteries and their presence in the soil.
In this study, we examined the effect of buried batteries on two types of winter plants; lettuce and radish. These two plants were selected for their rapid growth and this helps to know the changes that occur during the research period.
The lettuce and radish were grown in two different basins, and the tubs were placed in similar conditions of humidity, temperature, and irrigation. Each plant has a test basin with batteries and another without batteries. We examined the effect of batteries on seeds and seedlings for each plant, in order to see the difference between them in the effect of batteries.
We found that the batteries negatively affected the seeds and seedlings of radish and lettuce, in different ways. That is, the batteries affected the growth of seeds and seedlings of radish, the same size, while the seeds of lettuce plant never grew because the lettuce plant is very sensitive to soil salinity and the presence of batteries increases soil salinity because it contains potassium salts.