Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money

Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming

AvBill Butterworth

Häftad, Engelska, 2025

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Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money: Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming introduces a groundbreaking, technology-driven global plan that aims to achieve environmental sustainability through financial incentives. This book explores innovative methods to upcycle end-of-life materials using mycorrhizae and microplastic technology, emphasizing the importance of transforming waste into valuable resources without relying on mineral fertilizers, while still achieving higher crop yields. The potential for earning carbon credits is also discussed.

The book delves into safe waste upscaling techniques, ensuring both financial and environmental sustainability. It offers practical approaches to land management and discusses the concept of reverse franchising, emphasizing its role in promoting widespread adoption of sustainable practices.

Contributes an understanding on how the mycorrhizae in composting processes and soils can be used on an industrial scale to upcycle wastes safely and productively
Provides the first results from in-field and academic replicated plot trials of developing microplastics and turning end-of-life materials into microplastics
Highlights a proven plan to manage land to teach landowners and farmers to upcycle wastes and minimize mineral fertilizers

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2025-10-21
Mått:152 x 229 x 12 mm
Vikt:318 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Developments in Environmental Science
Antal sidor:212
Förlag:Elsevier Science
ISBN:9780443267758

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Introduction Less talk and more doing. Rebuilding BACS – the Global Bio-Active Soil Carbon sink.Section 1. The Need and Opportunity to Change1. The basis of all life on Earth2. Eco-mimic and the Carboniferous Era3. Rebuilding the global Soil Carbon Sink4. Energy in agriculture5. Safety -The mycorrhizal closed conduit (i) Vermuyden and the Fens (ii) Terra Pretta (iii) The mycorrhizal conduit and natural ecosystems (iv) BACS - the Bioactive Soil Carbon Sink6. Recycle to land (i) Proximity composting of urban and industrial wastes (ii) Zero Till7. Regulation – the balance of safety and empowerment8. The Cash Driver (i) Tax the alternative (ii) Manufactured fertilisers i. Energy cost ii. Financial cost (iii) Empowering farmers and foresters i. Reverse Franchising ii. Policing (iv) Carbon CreditsSection 2 The Technology1. Soils as the basis of the global ecosystem2. The composting process3. Mycorrhizal conduit4. The range of materials to upcycle a. The chemistry b. Physical condition5. Microplastics a. The basics – what is known b. Pot trials on a microplastic with Nitrogen in the molecule c. The global opportunitySection 3. The Materials1. Agricultural Wastes2. Urban and Industrial Wastes3. Hospital Wastes4. Sewage5. Sewage and microplastics – protecting water supplies and the oceans6. Plastics and composites – no limits?Section 4. Farm and forestry – composting and direct application Proximity Composting Applicationi. Farming ii. ForestrySection 5. Case Studies and Split field Trialsi. Farm study composting ii. Farm study composting iii. Split field trial with microplastic fertiliserSection 6. Replicated Plot Trials Microplastic fertiliser (NIAB in UK) Section 7. Control and Enablementi. Protecting water supplies and the oceans ii. Research on regulation iii. Enablement iv. Case Study – Reverse Franchising with professional supervision Conclusions The opportunity The basic cash driver of change Urgency