- Title
- Soil and brownfield bioremediation
- Creator
- Megharaj, Mallavarapu; Naidu, Ravi
- Relation
- Microbial Biotechnology Vol. 10, Issue 5, p. 1244-1249
- Publisher Link
- http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1751-7915.12840
- Publisher
- Wiley-Blackwell
- Resource Type
- journal article
- Date
- 2017
- Description
- Soil contamination with petroleum hydrocarbons, persistent organic pollutants, halogenated organic chemicals and toxic metal(loid)s is a serious global problem affecting the human and ecological health. Over the past half-century, the technological and industrial advancements have led to the creation of a large number of brownfields, most of these located in the centre of dense cities all over the world. Restoring these sites and regeneration of urban areas in a sustainable way for beneficial uses is a key priority for all industrialized nations. Bioremediation is considered a safe economical, efficient and sustainable technology for restoring the contaminated sites. This brief review presents an overview of bioremediation technologies in the context of sustainability, their applications and limitations in the reclamation of contaminated sites with an emphasis on brownfields. Also, the use of integrated approaches using the combination of chemical oxidation and bioremediation for persistent organic pollutants is discussed.
- Subject
- soil contamination; pollution; bioremediation; brownfields; Sustainable Development Goals; SDG 7
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/1959.13/1351837
- Identifier
- uon:30778
- Identifier
- ISSN:1751-7915
- Rights
- © 2017 The Authors. Microbial Biotechnology published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd and Society for Applied Microbiology. CC BY 4.0
- Language
- eng
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