Mushrooms Can Break Down 90% of Diaper Materials Within 2 Months
source: http://www.treehugger.com/files/2011/05/mushrooms-can-break-down-diapers-landfills.php
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Sometimes, discovery is about putting things together in new ways. We know that mushrooms can be great at breaking down pollutants, and we know that disposable diapers are a huge problems, with mountains of the slow-degrading poop-containers filling up landfills... So how about finding a kind of mushrooms that fests on diapers? That what researchers at the Metropolitan University in Mexico City have apparently done. Read on for more...
In an article published in Waste Management (the journal, not the company), Alethia Vázquez-Morillas describes her research:
cultivating the right type of mushroom on soiled nappies can break down 90% of the material they are made of within two months. Within four, they are degraded completely. What is more, she says, despite their unsavoury diet the fungi in question, Pleurotus ostreatus (better known as oyster mushrooms), are safe to eat. To prove the point she has, indeed, eaten them.
The second photo in this article shows what the Oyster mushrooms look like. They are good at this job because they feed on cellulose, the main material used in disposable diapers. In the wild, the Oyster mushrooms grow on dead trees, so they have the enzymes to break down cellulose...
Sometimes, discovery is about putting things together in new ways. We know that mushrooms can be great at breaking down pollutants, and we know that disposable diapers are a huge problems, with mountains of the slow-degrading poop-containers filling up landfills... So how about finding a kind of mushrooms that fests on diapers? That what researchers at the Metropolitan University in Mexico City have apparently done. Read on for more...
In an article published in Waste Management (the journal, not the company), Alethia Vázquez-Morillas describes her research:
cultivating the right type of mushroom on soiled nappies can break down 90% of the material they are made of within two months. Within four, they are degraded completely. What is more, she says, despite their unsavoury diet the fungi in question, Pleurotus ostreatus (better known as oyster mushrooms), are safe to eat. To prove the point she has, indeed, eaten them.
The second photo in this article shows what the Oyster mushrooms look like. They are good at this job because they feed on cellulose, the main material used in disposable diapers. In the wild, the Oyster mushrooms grow on dead trees, so they have the enzymes to break down cellulose...
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Read Paul Staments book: "Mycelium running, how mushrooms can save the world" ... and have your mind blown. Mushrooms can also clean up toxic waste... and they were effectively used to halt the spread of swine flu into the watershed when flooding caused pig shit to flow out from a pig farm.
They are also a great source of nutrients and Reishi mushrooms have been studied extensively for their ability to rejuvenate the body. But wait... there's more!
Mushrooms are incredibly important to the functioning of forests, and are often overlooked for their great potential.
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Magic!
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