Can Biology Clean Up Sewage and Oil Spills?
From mushrooms to hair mats, quirky cleanups for man-made messes.
Go With the Flow Inventor John Todd's Eco-Machines use tanks of bacteria, fungi, plants, snails, and fish to digest sewage, releasing water clean enough to be reused for plumbing or irrigation. The man-made ecosystems can filter up to 50 million gallons a day and have treated wastewater from a Hawaiian resort and a chocolate factory.
Magic Mushrooms Fungi are marvelous biological filters, breaking down hydrocarbons, PCBS, DDT, and dioxin. Mycological genius Paul Stamets has used oyster mushrooms to transform diesel-soaked soil into a bed of gourmet fungi after just four weeks. Bon appétit!
Diet of Worms Thomas Azwell, an environmental science PhD student at the University of California-Berkeley, uses worms to digest organic waste from California Costco stores; the chain then sells the resulting compost, called Vermigrow, as a soil amendment.
Good Hair Day Oil clings to hair—which makes your mop an excellent material for mopping up oil spills. Matter of Trust, a San Francisco nonprofit, collected trimmings from 16,000 salons to make hair mats that soaked up slicks everywhere from car repair shops to San Francisco Bay. And Azwell is using his worms to convert oil-laden hair mats into fertilizer.
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Sludge Happens
Recycling sewage into fertilizer might be making us sick. Why doesn't the EPA give a crap?
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Do Biodegradable Plastics Really Work?
The answer, plus five more degrading questions.
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Our Own Waste Enemy
Breaking the haulers' monopoly on cleaning up our act.
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Waste Not Want Not
We're burying the planet in garbage. Here's how to dig out.
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If Algae can be used to produce oil, why can't someone scoop up the Ireland-sized algae slick in the Gulf of Mexico and produce oil from it? It's free for the taking and fisherpeople will love you for it!
What's next in the chain?
What I want to know is what about those mushrooms, snails, fish, and hair? Are they chock full of these dangerous toxins, or are they somehow transformed, and the fish, snails, mushrooms etc., are organic and safe for human consumption? Once the hairmat absorbs the oil, then where does it go?
This article has a great beginning, but it needs sources and the follow-up of what happens next in the chain. The ideas sound interesting so far.
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