SLUDGE BACTERIA
January 1st, 2005
BY MONICA DOBIEBACTERIA have never had it so good in Canada. Demonized worldwide by environmental health officers, bacteria are being feted and are currently living large in Ontario, being injected into tips to feast on sludge. Professor Elizabeth Edwards, a scientist from the University of Toronto has discovered a way to farm naturally occurring bacteria, introducing them into toxic landfills, where they neutralise tough chlorine-based pollutants. Bacteria called dehalococcoides (CORRECT SPELLING) go to sleep when the sludge is gone and wake up again when more ...
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