How bioremediation play an eco- friendly approach for environment pollution management? How are bacteria used for bioremediation and water environment?
Bioremediation as a method of remediating polluted environment has many notable advantages compared to other methods of remediation, the foremost being its eco-friendly features, which include minimal site disruption, permanent waste removal, and elimination of long-term liability.
Currently, microbes are used to clean up pollution treatment in processes known as 'bioremediation'. Bioremediation uses micro-organisms to reduce pollution through the biological degradation of pollutants into non-toxic substances.
Bioremediation strategies remain the most eco-friendly approach in the remediation of contaminated sites. Microorganisms that are indigenous to the polluted area can be assisted by nutrient augmentation techniques to remediate the environment. This clearly has minimal disturbance of the prevailing ecosystem conditions. What is basically required is a good understanding of the growth requirements of the indigenous microbes.
"Eco-friendly" is a marketing term and has no technical meaning. Please do not use it in a technical context.
Bioremediation is used both for degradation of target pollutants and sorption of heavy metals and in situ as well as in reactors. Here are a some relevant reviews
Article Microbial Degradation of Hydrocarbons-Basic Principles for B...
https://www.nature.com/articles/s43017-020-0061-y
https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/abs/pii/S2352801X19302607
Bioremediation is the technical use of organisms or its derivatives especially microbes to remove the contaminant from environment. This is called ecofriendly due to remove environmental pollutants in such a manner where long term persistent toxic substrates convert into simple form i.e. ecofriendly products in natural way.
However you can isolate specific bacteria from polluted area and enriched the bacterial culture. For water environment you may use the bacteria by spraying or disseminate this bacteria through carrier on polluted site.
Microbes are at the top of the food chain. It has unlimited potential to degrade anything. Some waste material (the fact is there isn't any waste) is decomposed quickly, while some wastes undergo slow mineralization process.
Cosmic ethics (i.e. SOPs - Standard operating procedures) of operating the Mother Earth in the best possible way is to use bio remediation of any sort of wastes. We, so called homosapiens (humans) have generated enormous wastes over time, but didn't find solutions to solve it. That's what we are...
We create a series of problems and then try to solve it. However, the microbial world knows how to bring in homeostasis. It is just the matter of time
Bioremediation is an environmental friendly approach in remediating polluted sites. Read up Bioaugumentation and Biostimulation.
Bioremediation is widely used for detoxification of contaminants in the soil, water, effluents or other environments. Microbes or their enzymes is mostly used for bioremediation in immobilized forms.
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