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Today microorganisms are greatly contributing in saving planet earth. They use their combination of enzymes and clean the pollutants. The combine use of these enzymes along with detergents is used in cleaning of clothes, debris, organic and inorganic wastes.

In nature, natural scavengers are already presents which help in decomposing the dead bodies, plants wastages, pollutants in to simple form so that these can be further utilized by other animals to continue the natural cycles and thus maintain the ecological balance. Now various chemicals, petrochemicals, heavy metal waste, pesticides, etc. are contaminating with the clean environments which are not degraded by the microbes or natural scavengers which causes threat to the environment and our planet earth.

With modern technology like Genetic Engineering, Biotechnology can solve this problem. The process utilizes genetically engineered microbes, enzymes and plants which are used to clean any pollutants or solve any environmental problem. This is called Bioremediation. Pollutants or waste which is not recycled easily are destroyed by incineration or landfills but still this is not 100% recycle process and problem remains the same. But, today due to the development of technology and genetic engineering, bioremediation are done which are capable of degrading highly toxic and in-organic materials. These are not only eco-friendly but also cost effective and gives the desire effect with very low or no side effect.
Advantages of Bioremediations are many more and still getting discover- like it is now used very successfully in excavation, in petrochemicals, in agriculture, in converting barren land in fertilized land. Some examples/types of Bioremediations are bioventing, land farming, bioreactor, Biostimulation, industrial waste management’s and water treatment etc.

Recently in September 2012, in Colorado, slew of microorganism were unearthed through process of meta-genomic sequencing and had shown successful bioremediation of uranium contaminated sites. Further research is going on to develop this process which is not only helping in all cases of pollutants, but also new techniques are further directly restoring our planet and helping us to live and survive in more eco-friendly environment !