1-Aug-2025 -
After reading our
preprint at
ChemRxiv on the discovery of TunaMud organic fertilizer, the
leading tuna industry magazine
Atuna interviewed
Professor
Adele Muscolo. Based at University of Reggio Calabria's
where she teaches Soil Ecology Pedology and Soil Chemistry,
Professor Muscolo since long collaborates with the teams of
Mario Pagliaro at Italy's Research Council
and
Francesco
Mauriello and
Mariateresa
Russo at her own University.
Sewage sludge residue resulting from wastewater treatment at
canned
tuna industry factories is a multi-purpose
fertilizer dubbed herein “
TunaMud”.
Tested on arboreal (olive and pomegranate), herbaceous (pepperoni
and lettuce), and horticultural (onion) plants,
TunaMud improved
the growth parameters of all plants grown, as well as the quality
of fertilized soil. A biological resource so far disposed of as
biowaste at substantial economic cost is thereby turned into a
valued fertilizer.
Along with rthe discovery of TunaOil, these findings
close the
material cycle through technically and economically viable
circular economy processes for all by-products of the global
canned tuna industry,
including wastewater treatment
by-product.
The interview, given a few days after publication of the preprint,
shows once again the
importance
of preprint publishing in science, and in chemistry and
related sciences in particular.
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