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Biotechnology: bioremediation

Published: 26 February 2010 Publication History

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Current and previous polluting activities have caused our urban nature to become more contaminated with various pollutants of which some are natural and some are xenobiotics. Many of these contaminated areas are in heavily constructed urban areas. Old remediation technologies are not able to provide solutions that are economically and environmentally acceptable and hence focus has been place on novel technologies. The aim of this paper is to focus on one such novel techniques of environmental pollution control called 'BIOREMEDIATION'. The paper gives an overview of the main topics in and around bioremediation and gives a brief idea about the key players in bioremediation.

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    ICWET '10: Proceedings of the International Conference and Workshop on Emerging Trends in Technology
    February 2010
    1070 pages
    ISBN:9781605588124
    DOI:10.1145/1741906
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    1. bioremediation
    2. ex-situ remediation
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