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Written by Delisa on 2024-11-20 at 11:02

"How did the sites look different after the work that you did on them?"

"They became basically beautiful meadows of native plants that were flowering, and now there are bees and birds and all sorts of life coming through. … In three months we saw a more than 50 percent reduction in all [petrochemical] pollutants. And then by the 12-month period, they were pretty much not detectable."

From "Turning Brownfields to Blooming Meadows, With the Help of Fungi"

https://e360.yale.edu/features/danielle-stevenson-interview

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Written by MCDuncanLab on 2024-11-20 at 12:39

@kattrali

I would love this to work like she says it does, but based on the research I’ve read on bioremediation it seems too good to be true.

Just inoculate some mushrooms and then completely digest Teflon?

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Written by Delisa on 2024-11-20 at 13:04

@MCDuncanLab That’s a good question. I was surprised as well, though the article implied there was more going on between the fungi and plants involved as well as the scaling issues the research has encountered thus far. And the end products still need to be dealt with, but significantly less mass than dumping toxic soil.

Seems promising, and hopefully something to inspire more people to get involved with bioremediation!

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Written by Delisa on 2024-11-20 at 13:04

@MCDuncanLab I wish there was a paper, but I bookmarked one of the books linked from her website to follow up on in the meantime: https://earthrepair.ca/

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