Milkweed touted as oil-spill super-sucker — with butterfly benefits

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http://i.cbc.ca/1.2856413.1417461701!/cpImage/httpImage/image.jpg_gen/derivatives/16x9_460/milkweed.jpg A Quebec company is taking a unique approach to cleaning up oil spills by producing the world's only industrial crop of milkweed that will be used as new kind of absorbent. And there's a bonus: growing more milkweed also helps conserve the habitat-stressed monarch butterfly.


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