There are tens of thousands of hectares of contaminated land in the UK. This land has harmful substances such as chemicals, pollutants and waste, accumulating in soil and groundwater. The resulting contamination can cause significant environmental problems that affect local communities and ecosystems.
Christopher Mosedale is a biologist specialising in microbes and cell engineering. Christopher feels that land remediation practices are poorly formalised and that treatments present significant costs for land owners. These issues result in high service costs, poor compliance, and few interventions when soil is contaminated or degraded.
Christopher is building a platform and marketplace to connect land remediation providers, land owners, and developers. This will enable those involved to measure and quantify their impact. The sharing of knowledge will help connect a fragmented marketplace, improve the updating of biological solutions, and allow landowners to be incentivised to improve their land quality.
Christopher joined the Regional Talent Engines programme in 2023. He says “The grant has allowed me to focus on my idea full time. The independent and experienced mentors have provided the specialist insights that I would struggle to get outside the programme. And the support will help me validate the concept to a level suitable for private venture investment.”
Christopher’s team has mapped out early web-based prototypes. It is now in the process of building a sensor and quantification tool that will be tested in a pilot project with early stage customers.
