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BioHaven Floating Islands Perform a Variety of Functions:
- Remove pollutants from a waterway, including nitrates, phosphates, ammonia and heavy metals,
- Provide critical riparian edge habitat,
- Sequester carbon and other greenhouse gases,
- Provide wave mitigation and erosion control,
- Provide structural alternatives for docks, walkways, bridges and more,
- Beautify a waterscape.
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BioHaven Floating Islands are examples of a new field called Biomimetics, in which manmade products are developed to mimic nature, the most efficient and least wasteful of models. Most notably, they remove pollutants from a waterway, including nitrates, phosphates, ammonia and heavy metals; provide critical riparian edge habitat; sequester carbon and other greenhouse gases; provide wave mitigation and erosion control; beautify a waterscape. Made from layers of recycled plastic which are bonded together with adhesive foam (matrix), BioHaven® Floating Islands are planted with sod, garden plants or wetland plants and launched onto a water body. There the plants are allowed to grow naturally, and, as they develop, their roots grow through the matrix and into the water below. Over time, a natural eco-system evolves that biomimics a concentrated wetland effect.
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