Posts Tagged ‘bioremediation’
According to Are mushrooms the solution to the beach closings on Madison’s lakes? a coalition of local non-profit orgnizations aims to employ fungi as part of a plan to clean up the beaches of Lake Wingra in Wisconsin. Christina Cappy, a member of the UW-Madison chapter of Engineers Without Borders and one of the coordinators [...]
Tags: bioremediation, Lake Wingra, mushrooms, mycoremediation
Polyurethane is used in a wide variety of products ranging from insulation, auto parts, plastic ware, packaging, adhesives and sealants, and many others. As a result, a large quantity of this useful and important plastic finds its way into waste streams every year. The problem is, polyurethane is resistant to degradation and has a reputation [...]
Tags: bioremediation, degradation of plastics, fungal composting, polurethane
Rehabilitation of an abandoned mine waste site in the Philippines has been assisted by inoculating trees with commercial mycorrhizal inoculum. The article Fungi can rehabilitate barren mine waste dumpsite – study by Rudy A. Fernandez appears in The Philippine Star. The title might be a bit misleading since the fungi aren’t doing the remediation all [...]
Tags: bioremediation, Mycorrhizae, Philippines
