Opportunities for Biotechnology Research and Entrepreneurship

Author(s): S. K. Jasmine Shahina* and Summera Rafiq

DOI: 10.2174/9789815196115124010011

Bioremedial Approach to the Mitigation of Environmental Pollution

Pp: 183-206 (24)

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Abstract

SHS investigation development is considered from the geographical and historical viewpoint. 3 stages are described. Within Stage 1 the work was carried out in the Department of the Institute of Chemical Physics in Chernogolovka where the scientific discovery had been made. At Stage 2 the interest to SHS arose in different cities and towns of the former USSR. Within Stage 3 SHS entered the international scene. Now SHS processes and products are being studied in more than 50 countries.

Abstract

Anthropogenic events have caused environment all around the world to deteriorate, rendering them unsuited for the existence of indigenous biological species. Over the last few decades, environmental contamination seems to have been a prominent subject of concern, affecting the wellbeing of people. The environments have been gravely damaged by excessive industrialization, inappropriate farming techniques, and unregulated release of contaminants into soil and aquatic bodies. As a result, there has been poor utilization of natural resources, increase in deforestation, a decline of flora and fauna, drinking water scarcity, and significant economic losses which are challenging. The need to develop innovative, eco-friendly, low-cost, and much more effective environmental remediation technologies emerged as a result of environmental pollution. Microbes are well recognised for their propensity to degrade and absorb a broad range of organic chemicals and are now utilized to clean up environmental pollution through the process of 'bioremediation'. The bioremediation process involves a variety of microorganisms that help in degradation, eradication, immobilization, or detoxification of different chemical pollutants from the environment. Bioremediation methods are widely used and are still increasing at an enormous speed nowadays. Entrepreneurship can be developed by commercializing bioremediation in saving the environment.

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