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Turkey Tail and Oyster Mushrooms Detoxify Cigarette Butt Waste

Turkey Tail and Oyster Mushrooms Detoxify Cigarette Butt Waste

Turkey tail, Oyster mushroom, Milk-white toothed polypore

What they found

White rot fungi broke down over 95% of nicotine in cigarette-butt leachate within six weeks.

White rot fungi broke down over 95% of nicotine in cigarette-butt leachate within six weeks.

The number

over 95% of the nicotine

How solid is it?

Field study

Field study

Field/ecology

Field/ecology

Evidence ladder: Lab dish → Animal → Early human → Strong human. Reviews summarize earlier research.

At a glance

Latin name

Trametes versicolor, Pleurotus ostreatus, Irpex lacteus

Trametes versicolor, Pleurotus ostreatus, Irpex lacteus

Compound

nicotine

nicotine

Published in

ScienceDirect

ScienceDirect

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Section

ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION

ECOLOGY & CONSERVATION

As it ran in Shroom Scan

Cleaning Cigarette Waste

Cleaning Cigarette Waste

White rot fungi like turkey tail (Trametes versicolor), oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), and milk-white toothed polypore (Irpex lacteus) broke down over 95% of the nicotine in toxic leachate from cigarette butts within six weeks. These mushrooms also reduced phytotoxicity and degraded other harmful tobacco chemicals to help fully detoxify cigarette litter, one of the world’s most common plastic-pollution problems.

White rot fungi like turkey tail (Trametes versicolor), oyster mushroom (Pleurotus ostreatus), and milk-white toothed polypore (Irpex lacteus) broke down over 95% of the nicotine in toxic leachate from cigarette butts within six weeks. These mushrooms also reduced phytotoxicity and degraded other harmful tobacco chemicals to help fully detoxify cigarette litter, one of the world’s most common plastic-pollution problems.

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