The “way to go” for what? You’re not going to clean up the world with aquariums.
For personal aquariums. A lot of these systems are fractals, big or small. Grasses should help keep aquariums cleaner, too.
The “way to go” for having clean aquariums?
Since this is posted in a community called “Aquariums and Fish Keeping”, that would be my first guess.
No no, you don’t understand we just need to put all the cities in aquariums make it like a bikini bottom type situation and then we can clean pollutants
Plants remove nitrites and nitrates so of course they are a great resource for making your tank more natural in both filtration and visually
I refuse to not include plants, especially with a Geophagus that likes to move everything around, there are always ways to get plenty of plants in there! Unless it’s sevrums or other such plant eaters, in which case a refugium is golden