Team B-MOST is Vittorio G. Senatore, Pietro Butti, Luigi Ferrante, Monica Maggioni, Roberto Maiorana and Beatrice Prete from Università degli Studi di Milano – Bicocca in Italy.
Climate crisis awareness is pushing governments towards actions against fossil fuels and greenhouse gases emission, but an issue of the same size is hidden just under our feet: we are destroying and polluting our soil day after day, without even noticing!
Up to now, the soil is being cleaned with products from the same source of the pollutants themselves, petroleum. Their production is not sustainable and the “cleaned” soil remains in turn polluted by the traces of these molecules.
We offer a real sustainable and natural solution: SoilSoap. We developed a complete bioprocess to produce a molecule that nature has been using for millennia to clean itself, to address the terrifying magnitude of the contaminations we caused. The process uses a combination of two yeasts that, when combined, produce a natural soap for the soil, starting only from molasses, the main residue of sugar production.
