S10 : Exposing Laundry Detergent's Dirty Laundry: How Laundry Detergent Affects the Growth of Plants


Students Haidi Wu
School HDSB - Robert Bateman High School - Burlington
Level Intermediate 9/10 - Grade 9
Group Group 1 - Earth and Environmental
Abstract The purpose of this project is to see how chemicals in laundry detergent can affect plant growth. Water that goes down the drain is not ridden of chemicals before being released into the environment, so the soil is probably being polluted with chemicals like chlorine abundant in laundry detergent. In this project, we will compare different detergent brands when they are added to the soil.