Duodu, MG and Singh, B and Christina, E (2022) Waste management through bioremediation technology: An eco-friendly and sustainable solution. [Book Chapter]
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Environmental challenges have always been key to sustainable development, and in the 21st century, they have become a serious source of concern. One of the primary issues of the contemporary global landscape is environmental sustainability in the face of growing industrialization. Industries are important drivers of the global economy, but they are also major polluters because they discharge partly treated/unprocessed potentially toxic and hazardous wastes comprising of organic and inorganic contaminants, which pollute the environment (soil and water) and cause strong toxicity in living beings. Among the various sources of environmental pollution, industrial waste is the most significant because industries use low-cost, poorly or non-biodegradable chemicals to obtain high-quality products in a timely and cost-effective manner; however, their toxicity is frequently overlooked. A major challenge for environmental safety is ensuring the safety of chemicals used in numerous industrial operations. Bioremediation is a waste management technique that uses microorganisms, plants, or their enzymes to degrade/detoxify organic and inorganic contaminants from polluted soils and wastewaters, such as phenols, chlorophenols, petroleum hydrocarbons, polychlorinated biphenyls, organic solvents, azo dyes, pesticides, obstinate compounds, and toxic metals. The emission of numerous hazardous chemicals and industrial wastes, both of which are considered highly dangerous to the environment and living beings, has become a growing source of worry. The United States Environmental Protection Agency (USEPA) and other environmental pollution control organizations have classified some of these compounds as “priority pollutants.” This chapter discusses pollutants that are sensitive to bioremediation, groupings of organisms that play a major role in bioremediation, strategies in waste management as well as current technological trends in bioremediation.
| Item Type: | Book Chapter |
|---|---|
| Publication: | Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment for Sustainable Ecosystem Services, Volume 2: Microbial Mitigation of Waste for Sustainable Ecosystem Services |
| Publisher: | Elsevier Applied Science |
| Additional Information: | The copyright for this article belongs to Elsevier Applied Science. |
| Keywords: | Bioremediation; Environmental pollution; Pollutants; Sustainability; Waste; Waste management |
| Department/Centre: | Division of Biological Sciences > Microbiology & Cell Biology |
| Date Deposited: | 14 Jan 2023 07:09 |
| Last Modified: | 14 Jan 2023 07:09 |
| URI: | https://eprints.iisc.ac.in/id/eprint/79154 |
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