Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money

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

Bill Butterworth (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

212 Seiten

2025
Elsevier - Health Sciences Division (Verlag)
978-0-443-26775-8 (ISBN)

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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.

Introduction Less talk and more doing. Rebuilding BACS – the Global Bio-Active Soil Carbon sink.

Section 1. The Need and Opportunity to Change
1. The basis of all life on Earth
2. Eco-mimic and the Carboniferous Era
3. Rebuilding the global Soil Carbon Sink
4. Energy in agriculture
5. 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 Sink
6. Recycle to land (i) Proximity composting of urban and industrial wastes (ii) Zero Till
7. Regulation – the balance of safety and empowerment
8. 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 Credits

Section 2 The Technology
1. Soils as the basis of the global ecosystem
2. The composting process
3. Mycorrhizal conduit
4. The range of materials to upcycle a. The chemistry b. Physical condition
5. Microplastics a. The basics – what is known b. Pot trials on a microplastic with Nitrogen in the molecule c. The global opportunity

Section 3. The Materials
1. Agricultural Wastes
2. Urban and Industrial Wastes
3. Hospital Wastes
4. Sewage
5. Sewage and microplastics – protecting water supplies and the oceans
6. Plastics and composites – no limits?

Section 4. Farm and forestry – composting and direct application Proximity Composting Application
i. Farming ii. Forestry

Section 5. Case Studies and Split field Trials
i. Farm study composting ii. Farm study composting iii. Split field trial with microplastic fertiliser

Section 6. Replicated Plot Trials Microplastic fertiliser (NIAB in UK)

Section 7. Control and Enablement
i. 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

Erscheinungsdatum	21.10.2025
Reihe/Serie	Developments in Environmental Science
Verlagsort	Philadelphia
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Themenwelt	Naturwissenschaften ► Biologie ► Ökologie / Naturschutz
Themenwelt	Technik ► Umwelttechnik / Biotechnologie
ISBN-10	0-443-26775-8 / 0443267758
ISBN-13	978-0-443-26775-8 / 9780443267758
Zustand	Neuware