article_snippet.sent: They may not be the most glamourous of scientific instruments, but tampons could help experts clean up polluted rivers.
article_snippet.sent: Engineers believe the super absorbent properties of tampons could be used to detect pipes that shunt sewage into streams instead of treatment plants.
article_snippet.sent: Engineers believe the super absorbent properties of tampons could be used to detect pipes that shunt sewage into streams instead of treatment plants.
article_snippet.sent: Experts think tampons (pictured left) could be a cheap solution to detecting pollutants in rivers.
article_snippet.sent: That's why tampons, being explicitly untreated, provide such a neat solution.
article_snippet.sent: The technique was then trialled in the field by suspending tampons for three days in sixteen surface water outlets running into streams and rivers in Sheffield and then testing the tampons under UV light.
article_snippet.sent: The technique was then trialled in the field by suspending tampons for three days in sixteen surface water outlets running into streams and rivers in Sheffield and then testing the tampons under UV light.