Simon Grimes
6 Jan 2025
The most recalcitrant dioxin can be cleaned up by microbes! We just hit submit on a Biosciences NSW grant to commercialise the technology!
We just hit "submit" on a Biosciences NSW grant to commercialise the previous work at UNSW to clean-up dioxin contamination of Sydney Harbour sediments (and then other harbours around the world).
This previous research was funded through a NSW Environment Trust Grant and led by Michael Manefield. With Matthew Lee Tetratech Coffee and scientists from NSW DCCEEW, they discovered bacteria capable of degrading the dioxins. But great research is no use if it stays in the lab! Need to get these bugs working in Sydney Harbour! Through this grant we plan to develop with UNSW a commercial process to remediate the harbour at <1% of the cost ($/ha) of current treatment methods.
Check out the short video that we put together as part of our submission!