2023-12-17 14:36:18
In Belgium as elsewhere, the power of mushrooms allows for hundreds of applications. New materials for construction, new molecules of interest, textiles, remediation of polluted soils and waste recovery, some will even be able to degrade PFAS.
This is another look at the mushroom-hunting walks offered by Novobiom, a small company in Louvain-la-Neuve. In the forest or in polluted industrial wastelands, the approach remains the same: a basket and a bucket to collect the mushrooms on one side and a soil sample on the other. Back in the laboratory, we must characterize the hydrocarbon pollution or soon PFAS in this soil. Because the mushrooms acclimatize there and the identification of the species and why not, the best strain will make it possible, in a short time, to inoculate the earth and allow a natural depollution process to operate: “It’s the mycelium that interests us, the white network that you see hereexplains Caroline Zaoui, co-founder of Novobiom. Mycelium can grow on polluted soils and break down molecules thanks to their enzymes, mainly petroleum derivatives but any matter of organic origin, a bit like they digest wood and use it as food“.
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