By Danielle Stevenson, PhD and Sebastian Harrison, Brownfield Revitalization Specialist
Published by the Center for Creative Land Recycling, April 22, 2024
You might be familiar with mushrooms on a tree stump or your pizza, but did you know mushrooms can be used for pollution cleanup? As nature’s decomposers, this is the job fungi were made for!
CCLR is dedicated to pursuing creative solutions to land revitalization and we want to know: could fungi be the future of in-situ site cleanup? To help us answer this question, we turned to biological remediation expert Danielle Stevenson, PhD and Environmental Scientist at the University of California in Riverside.
Biological remediation works with living organisms like plants, bacteria and/or fungi to address contaminants in the environment. Fungi have largely been overlooked for remediation even though they are the main decomposers in soils across the globe and could help ‘heal’ soil contaminated from the petroleum, chemical, and manufacturing industries.
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Functional Fungi: How Mycelium Can Help Remove Soil Contamination.