An Investigation of The Use of Mushrooms in The Research on Environmental Pollution

OpenAlex İngilizce

Efforts to eliminate environmental pollution arebecoming more and more important. Because, with the rapidly increasing worldpopulation and technological developments, natural resources are rapidly beingdestroyed. In this respect, it is widely believed that 100 years later, humanbeings will find it difficult to find water and nutrients and environmentalpollution will reach serious levels. These environmental impurities are knownto be of organic, inorganic and biological origin. In terms of toxic effects,heavy metal group is more prominent. These pollutants can interfere with soil,air and water resources and threaten living things. The most important part ofthe studies in the prevention of environmental pollution is the cost of plantor application investment, additional consumables and chemical needs, operatingcosts and toxic effects of the outputs (such as a waste sludge) aftertreatment. Therefore, the use and investigation of the easier and economicalapplication of natural products in environmental studies is gaining importance.In this study, the usability of fungi growing naturally in environmentalpollution prevention studies were investigated. In the literature, some studieshave been identified that remove pollutants with mushrooms and their process,fungus and optimization criteria were compared. The achievements were sharedwith the values ​​and what kind of pollutants were removed. In the light of theinformation presented in this study, it was observed that parameter “Pleurotus mushroom” species were morepreferred in these studies and high pollutant parameter removal was obtained.