Commercial mushrooms are cultivated on lignocellulose wastes, such as corncob, saw dust,
straw and wood chips. Following the rapidly increasing global mushroom production, the …

There is a continuously increasing worldwide concern for the development of wastewater
and contaminated soil treatment technologies. Fenton processes and biological treatments …

Agricultural wastes such as lignocellulosic residues are renewable resources can be used
for mushroom cultivation. Spent mushroom substrate (SMS) is defined as leftover of biomass …

Global environmental pollutants are becoming intense because of the increasing human
population, urbanisation, and industrialisation. Human health and the ecosystem are …

Soils contaminated with hazardous chemicals worldwide are awaiting remediation activities;
bioremediation is often considered as a cost-effective remediation approach. Potential …

Biological treatments are considered an environmentally option to clean-up polluted soil
with polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). A pot experiment was conducted to …

Fungal bioremediation is a promising technique for the cleanup of sites contaminated with
polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). However, due to limited understanding of the …

The management of large volumes of organic residues generated in different livestock,
urban, agricultural and industrial activities is a topic of environmental and social interest. The …

Despite the co-occurrence of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) and benzene,
toluene, ethylbenzene, and xylene (BTEX) in the field, to date, knowledge on the …

This chapter provides a spectrum of the research investigations on the use of spent
mushroom substrate (SMS). It outlines characteristics of spent substrate, and presents the …