Thursday, 28 June 2012

Eating garbage: Bacteria for bioremediation

Eating garbage: Bacteria for bioremediation: Urbana, IL (SPX) Jun 27, 2012



A 150-foot-high garbage dump in Colombia, South America, may have new life as a public park. Researchers at the University of Illinois have demonstrated that bacteria found in the dump can be used to neutralize the contaminants in the soil.

Jerry Sims, a U of I associate professor of crop sciences and USDA-Agricultural Research Service research leader and Andres Gomez, a graduate student