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My general understanding about bioremediation is the material has to be removed and put in a landfill.

darkpuma 8y ago
> "Billion Oyster Project partners with more than 70 restaurants in New York City. The businesses save up their oyster shells rather than tossing them, and a collection partner for the Billion Oyster Project rounds them up and carts them off to Governors Island, a small island due east of the Statue of Liberty." It seems unclear to me whether their deal with restaurants is limited to collecting shells from restaurants or includes distributing oysters to restaurants as well. Hopefully it's only the former. One hopes the oysters being served are not local.
- jacquesm 8y ago
  > One hopes the oysters being served are not local. Whether you're consuming the local waste or waste from somewhere else doesn't make much of a difference.
  - darkpuma 8y ago
    Not all regions are equally polluted.
- mattkrause 8y ago
  I think works the other way round. They collect the shells of edible oysters grown in less polluted areas. These are cleaned and used to jumpstart the NYC oyster colony, which are not yet edible.
Cthulhu_ 8y ago
The "natural" process is that e.g. oysters grab the co2 and bad stuff from the water, die, sink to the bottom and get covered in sediment. That's where major carbon sinks ended up anyway, to be turned into oil/coal/gas over millions of years.
- oyster 8y ago
  Somehow, I think the pollutants originating from human activity will really be very much quite different from what used to become sequestered in sedimentary rock. Smoke detector radiological sources, teflon pans, noble gases and refridgerants, cadmium paints and pigments, dioxins, kepone, BPA, hydrazine, sulfur mustards, medication, depleted uranium. The list goes on.
  - mfoy_ 8y ago
    Nice try, Oyster. Back to the NY harbour with you.
- PhilWright 8y ago
  Coal comes from dead plant matter that decays into peat and over millions of years into coal. Oil/gas from organic material that are buried under sedimentary rock.

> "Billion Oyster Project partners with more than 70 restaurants in New York City. The businesses save up their oyster shells rather than tossing them, and a collection partner for the Billion Oyster Project rounds them up and carts them off to Governors Island, a small island due east of the Statue of Liberty." It seems unclear to me whether their deal with restaurants is limited to collecting shells from restaurants or includes distributing oysters to restaurants as well. Hopefully it's only the former. One hopes the oysters being served are not local.

jacquesm 8y ago
> One hopes the oysters being served are not local. Whether you're consuming the local waste or waste from somewhere else doesn't make much of a difference.
- darkpuma 8y ago
  Not all regions are equally polluted.
mattkrause 8y ago
I think works the other way round. They collect the shells of edible oysters grown in less polluted areas. These are cleaned and used to jumpstart the NYC oyster colony, which are not yet edible.

Cthulhu_ 8y ago

The "natural" process is that e.g. oysters grab the co2 and bad stuff from the water, die, sink to the bottom and get covered in sediment. That's where major carbon sinks ended up anyway, to be turned into oil/coal/gas over millions of years.

oyster 8y ago
Somehow, I think the pollutants originating from human activity will really be very much quite different from what used to become sequestered in sedimentary rock. Smoke detector radiological sources, teflon pans, noble gases and refridgerants, cadmium paints and pigments, dioxins, kepone, BPA, hydrazine, sulfur mustards, medication, depleted uranium. The list goes on.
- mfoy_ 8y ago
  Nice try, Oyster. Back to the NY harbour with you.
PhilWright 8y ago
Coal comes from dead plant matter that decays into peat and over millions of years into coal. Oil/gas from organic material that are buried under sedimentary rock.