If not all, most heavy metals are naturally harmful.

Heavy metals are defined as metallic elements that

have a relatively high density compared to water. With the assumption that heaviness and toxicity are
inter-related, heavy metals also include metalloids. The primary example of these metals that
caused/harmed humans and polluted the environment are Arsenic, Mercury, Lead, Chromium,
Cadmium. These heavy metals are found naturally on the Earth's crust since the Earth's formation.
Industrialization and technological advancement have put an increasing demand in heavy metals. Which
in turn become a burden to our environment in the form of pollution. Heavy metals and metalloids such
as Arsenic, have inflicted serious damage on the ecosystem. Although heavy metals are naturally
occurring elements that are found throughout the earth’s crust, most environmental contamination and
human exposure result from anthropogenic activities such as mining and smelting operations, industrial
production and use, and domestic and agricultural use of metals and metal-containing compounds.
Environmental contamination can also occur through metal corrosion, atmospheric deposition, soil
erosion of metal ions and leaching of heavy metals, sediment re-suspension and metal evaporation from
water resources to soil and ground water. For me, the most practical way of fixing this problem in nature
is “nature” itself. There is a process called “Bioremediation”. It is used to treat the contaminated area by
altering conditions to stimulate growth of microorganisms and degrade the target pollutants. For short,
they use bacteria, and plants that live naturally in the environment. Use nature to clean nature.