radiation filled mushrooms - bad. dioxin filled mushrooms - good

[ensho]

I recently posted an article on Russian mushrooms sold on the market are filled with radiation.

however, the mushroom is going to help rid a town of dioxin.

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/04/27/us/27bragg.html?_r=2&hp=&adxnnl=1&oref=slogin&adxnnlx=1209313088-LkmntK4xzZ4DUoG/kTowpw


Saddled With Legacy of Dioxin, Town Considers an Odd Ally: The Mushroom


On a warm April evening, 90 people crowded into the cafeteria of Redwood Elementary School here to meet with representatives of the State Department of Toxic Substances Control.

The substance at issue was dioxin, a pollutant that infests the site of a former lumber mill in this town 130 miles north of San Francisco. And the method of cleanup being proposed was a novel one: mushrooms.

Mushrooms have been used in the cleaning up of oil spills, a process called bioremediation, but they have not been used to treat dioxin.

“I am going to make a heretical suggestion,” said Debra Scott, who works at a health food collective and has lived in the area for more than two decades, to whoops and cheers. “We could be the pilot study.”

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Local mushroom enthusiasts envision the site as a global center for the study of bioremediation that could even export fungi to other polluted communities.

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So, sometime later this year, Mr. Stamets is scheduled to begin testing a dump truck’s load of dioxin-laced dirt in Fort Bragg.

“One bin. Ten cubic yards. That’s a beginning,” said Dave Turner, a Council member. “I have hope — I wouldn’t bet my house on it — but I have a hope we can bioremediate this.”
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hope it works and the testing take place sooner rather then later.

[PetrusMonsFormicarum]

1. Fungi are our friends

in so many ways. Without fungal decomposition we would drown in an ocean of waste. Fungi are among the most powerful mineral concentrators in the human diet, and numerous varieties boast medicinal properties. They are barometers of healthy environments. Beautiful, fascinating, mysterious. Heck, some of them even speak to us.

[bean fidhleir]

2. But what will happen to the mushrooms afterwards? Do they say?

(I don't want to fool around logging in to find out, if they even say)