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= = = =  Saving The (Developing) World:   Protecting Our Natural Resources

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. ====