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Mushrooms Clean Up Pollution

Mycologist Paul Stamets explains how turkey tail and oyster mushrooms can be used to clean up dioxin contamination in Fort Bragg, California. He is the author of Mycelium Running : How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World and his company, Fungi Perfecti , specializes in gourmet and medicinal mushrooms.

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By Evan Kleiman • May 12, 2014 • 1 min read

Mycologist Paul Stamets explains how turkey tail and oyster mushrooms can be used to clean up dioxin contamination in Fort Bragg, California. He is the author of Mycelium Running: How Mushrooms Can Help Save the World and his company, Fungi Perfecti, specializes in gourmet and medicinal mushrooms. Read the New York Timesarticle about the Fort Bragg coastline cleanup.

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