Björk Brynjarsdottir: Turning Garbage Into Living Soil

In this episode of Life’s Tough, Explorers are Tougher, Richard Wiese sits down with Icelandic innovator Björk Brynjarsdóttir, who is reimagining one of humanity’s oldest problems: waste. By transforming food scraps through microbial fermentation, Björk’s work turns household waste into a powerful tool for restoring degraded soils. Her mission is especially urgent in Iceland, where landscapes once covered in birch forests have suffered centuries of erosion and now require new approaches to br...