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Environmental biotechnology can simply be described as "the optimal use of nature, in the form of plants, animals, bacteria, fungi and algae, to produce renewable energy, food and nutrients in a synergistic integrated cycle of profit making processes where the waste of each process becomes the feedstock for another process".
Environmental biotechnology includes various disciplines that play an essential role in reducing environmental waste and providing environmentally safe processes, such as biofiltration and biodegradation. [101] [102] The environment can be affected by biotechnologies, both positively and adversely.
Bioremediation broadly refers to any process wherein a biological system (typically bacteria, microalgae, fungi in mycoremediation, and plants in phytoremediation), living or dead, is employed for removing environmental pollutants from air, water, soil, flue gasses, industrial effluents etc., in natural or artificial settings. [1]
In accordance with the precautionary approach, contained in Principle 15 of the Rio Declaration on Environment and Development, the objective of the Protocol is to contribute to ensuring an adequate level of protection in the field of the safe transfer, handling and use of 'living modified organisms resulting from modern biotechnology' that may ...
Biotechnology may be used alongside microbial ecology to address a number of environmental and economic challenges. For example, molecular techniques such as community fingerprinting or metagenomics can be used to track changes in microbial communities over time or assess their biodiversity .
Biotechnology: the use of living systems and organisms to develop or make products. [18] (Ex: pharmaceuticals, Bioinformatics, Genetic engineering.) [17] Biomimetics: the imitation of models, systems, and elements of nature to solve complex human problems. (Ex: velcro, designed after George de Mestral noticed how easily burs stuck to a dog's ...
Environmental Science & Technology Letters is an online-only peer-reviewed scientific journal publishing brief research reports in the fields of environmental science and technology. It was first opened to submissions in 2013, with its first articles published online in January 2014.
Theoretical Chemical Engineering, Environmental Protection and Process Safety, Process and Chemical Engineering, Biotechnology: Apparatus, Plant, and Equipment, and Current Biotechnology Chemical Engineering and Biotechnology Abstracts ( CEABA-VTB ) is an abstracting and indexing service that is published by DECHEMA, BASF , and Bayer Technology ...