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Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money
Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Author: Bill Butterworth
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 7 5 - 8
- eBook ISBN:9 7 8 - 0 - 4 4 3 - 2 6 7 7 6 - 5
Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money: Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming features the establishment and continuing evolution of a t… Read more
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Request a sales quoteMycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money: Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming features the establishment and continuing evolution of a technology-based, global plan to deliver environmental sustainability that works because it is financially driven. This book will highlight on upcycling end-of-life materials using mycorrhizae and microplastic technology. This book contains technological approaches to upcycle wastes while not using mineral fertilizers but still delivering higher yields, raising the possibility of receiving carbon credits. Information will be included on safe upscaling of waste and financial and environmental sustainability, practical approaches to land management, and reverse franchising.
- Contributes an understanding of how the mycorrhizae in composting processes and soils can be used on an industrial scale to upcycle wastes safely, productively and to deliver environmental and financial sustainability
- Provides the first results from in-field and academic replicated plot trials of developing microplastics and turning end-of-life materials into microplastics in order to upcycle and deliver better crops and to rebuild the global carbon sink
- Highlights a proven plan to manage land to teach landowners and farmers to upcycle wastes and not use mineral fertilizers but still deliver higher yields
Researchers, scientists, engineers, and undergraduate students interested in ecology, waste management and environmental engineering
Contents 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
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
- No. of pages: 250
- Language: English
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443267758
- eBook ISBN: 9780443267765
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Bill Butterworth
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Director, Land Research Ltd, UK