The LIFE MySOIL project would like to invite you to attend the workshop “Mycoremediation, a sustainable strategy for the recovery of oil-contaminated sites”.

In this workshop, you will be able to discover the full potential of mycoremediation to clean up contaminated soils. In particular, attendees could know more about some lessons learnt using this technology, as well as its limitations and future steps for its scale up.

Additionally, you will learn about the advantages and disadvantages of conventional remediation techniques and how mycoremediation constitutes a step forward in terms of sustainability and efficiency.

The LIFE MySOIL project develops a competitive and innovative technology to demonstrate the feasibility of mycoremediation to remediate all petroleum-derived organic pollutants from aged industrial contaminated soils.

Mycoremediation is a type of bioremediation that uses fungal inocula to degrade (or accumulate) pollutants. The advantage of mycoremediation is that it retains the benefits of bioremediation treatments, including low economic, social and environmental costs, while allowing high levels of contaminant removal to be achieved without the counterparts of traditional remediation strategies (e.g. incineration and thermal desorption).