Tradd Cotter, a mushroom expert of nearly 40 years, told Fox News that using fungi may be effective in cleaning up the chemical spill in East Palestine, Ohio.
"When the mushrooms get hungry, they start to snip apart the molecules of the contaminant," he said."They basically sweat chemical scissors called enzymes, and they will resort to snipping these molecules apart into atoms and molecules they can use as a food source."
"The mushrooms bring wine to the party," Cotter said."They sense the chemical contamination dynamically" and"can start to snip apart the molecules."An example of an effective mushroom for this process, Cotter says, are the commonly eaten oyster mushrooms. Tradd Cotter believes that white oyster mushrooms are an effective strain to use for mycoremediation in the wake of chemical spills.
"Disposal and incineration seem like the cheapest options, but honestly it's not," he said."Mycoremediation I think is $50 to $70 per ton of material which is far cheaper than the disposal and incineration cost."
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