Waste not: Cultivation of mushrooms from distiller's solid waste

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CIRKA Distilleries, a micro-distillery located in Montréal hopes to be the foremost grain-to-bottle distillery inQuébec. The company is still in its infancy (incorporated in 2014) and only recently, as of November 2016, isdistributing its products at the Société des Alcools du Québec (SAQ). As demand for its products willincrease, conversely so will production, the company wishes to improve its waste management practices. Atpresent, CIRKA produces approximately 4 tonnes of wet waste per week - equivalent to 2 tonnes of dry solids.This research project will focus on evaluating the suitability of CIRKA's distiller wet waste for the cultivationof Pleurotus salmoneo-stramineus (pink oyster mushroom) and Pleurotus citrinopileatus (yellow oystermushroom). The project will study the influence of different growth substrates and UV exposure on the vitaminA and vitamin D content of these two varieties.