Saving The (Developing) World:Protecting Our Natural Resources

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Mycoremediation

• The use of microfungi to digest toxins from soil and water sources.

• This inhibits the inoculation of diseases and toxins from drinking water

• To grow this fungi, wet, used cardboard wraps straw or other compostable nitrogen rich organics and left to mulch.

• Mushrooms are great decomposers

• Mushroom strains have been identified that can consume a wide array of contaminants- from bacteria like E. coli to industrial pollutants like dioxins to heavy metals and even chemical weapons.

• Case Study – In Ecuador, there is a team cleaning up an oil spill in the Amazon River.

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