The company Bioland, a participant of the Zvorykinsky Project, has carried out the first in the world “biological cleanup” of the Gorky Park in Moscow, the Zvorykin Project reports.

The cleaning was also done by the park operator CPKiO Gorky and ecological society “Zhivaya Zemlya” (“Alive Land”).

The park cleanup was done using a unique bio-substance “Fenoks”, developed by a group of young scientists headed by Liliya Anisimova from Bioland – the Laureate of the Zvorykin Award in 2009 in the nomination “The Best Innovation Project”.

For dozens of years, the Gorky Park’s flowerbeds have been protected from blast and weed with pesticides that accumulate in the soil, making it inorganic, and in high street temperature they vaporize into the air.

Bioland’s bio-substance “Fenoks” is to help clean the park’s territory from pesticides. After applying the substance the lawns are to become greener and safer for visitors.

“Fenoks” works as its live micro-organisms consume pesticides as the only source of carbon and energy they need for existence. The scientists apply high concentrations of specially selected micro-organisms that have been earlier withdrawn from soil, selected and reproduced, into the cleansed environment. When these micro-organisms get into the soil the bacteria break a polluter’s complicated compounds into water and carbon gas and carbon dioxide and environmentally harmless products of microbe metabolism.

“Fenoks” can clear up to 95% pesticides from the soil and thus protect plants from them. The substance stimulates growth and increase crop output by 15-20%, ensuring mineral feeding of the plants in the growth period. The substance restores the soil fertility and its natural micro-flora. As a result of the soil remediation, the Gorky Park is to become a bright green territory of clean organic land.

Some cities in the world do have organic parks that have stopped using pesticides, however such “biological cleaning” has never been carried out elsewhere. This is the historical event not only for Moscow, but for the country. The partners also cleaned flowerbeds and lawns off waste and weed, volunteers loosened footworn paths and planted new lawn grass.