Mycorrhizae, Microplastics and Money
Wastes as a Resource for Farming and Forestry to Deliver Reversal of Global Warming
- 1st Edition - October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- 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 introduces a groundbreaking, technology-driven global… 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 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.
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
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
- Edition: 1
- Published: October 1, 2025
- Imprint: Elsevier
- Language: English
- Paperback ISBN: 9780443267758
- eBook ISBN: 9780443267765
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Bill Butterworth
Affiliations and expertise
Director, Land Research Ltd, UK