Can a vermicompost in soil remediate soil contaminated with gasoline?

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Richar Fontalvo

thanks for your answers. I think uses vermicompost with earthworm (E. Foetida) and vermicompost without veartworms in soil contaminated by gasoline or ACPM.

Murali Gopal

An article by Neumann et al 2014 in ISME highlights (The ISME Journal , (16 January 2014) | doi:10.1038/ismej.2013.233) the interactive effect of organic matter & microbiota in decontaminating polluted soils. Surely addition of vermicompost must also help in remediating the gasoline polluted soils.