Ideas Lab's Project Director, Lucy Vernall, interviews Dr Joanna Renshaw, lecturer in biogeochemistry at the Water Sciences group at the University of Birmingham, about her research into the spread of contaminants in the environment, and the restoration or remediation of those environments. Jo explains how microbes could be used to clean up nuclear sites, and also looks at how microbes could play a part in extracting crucial rare earth elements from waste electrical components going to landfill. Download a transcript of this podcast here: http://bit.ly/1m77KOa