BICnews Issue 9:
Bioremediation:
Nature's Way to a Cleaner Environment

Released on 1st April 2005

Soils and waters contaminated with toxic metals pose a major environmental and human health problem that needs an effective and affordable technological solution. Many areas remain contaminated with no remediation in sight because it is too expensive to clean them up with the available technologies. Bioremediation may provide an economically viable solution for remediating some of these sites.

In this issue of BICnews, we have attempted to uncover the principles of bioremediation, its advantages, applications, and obstacles in practicing this technology, and some case studies.