Mycoremediation

♤ is a form of bioremediation in which fungi are used to decontaminate the area.

Mycofiltration

♤ is a similar process, using fungal mycelia to filter toxic waste and microorganisms from water in soil.

Advantages of bioremediation

♤ Useful for the complete destruction of a wide variety of contaminants.

♤ The complete destruction of target pollutants is possible.

♤ Less expensive.

♤ Environment friendly Disadvantages of bioremediation Do you know?

Rattlesnakes are easily recognized by, their rattle. The rattlesnake babies are born with what is called a prebutton. The baby snake loses this piece when it sheds its skin for the first time. With the shedding a new button appears. With every shedding after that another button, or rattle, will be added. These buttons are made up of a material called Keratin. The rattles are empty. The noise comes from each segment knocking together, so until a rattlesnake has two or more pieces it isn’t going to make a sound! But when it does...you WILL hear it...and you WILL RUN!

♤ Bioremediation is limited to those compounds that are biodegradable. Not all compounds are susceptible to rapid and complete degradation.

♤ Biological processes are often highly specific.

♤ It is difficult to extrapolate from bench and pilot-scale studies to full-scale field operations.

♤ Bioremediation often takes longer time than other treatment process.