Review on Bioremediation of Metal Contaminated Soils
*Corresponding Author: Payal Mago, Shaheed Rajguru college of Applied Sciences for Women, University of Delhi, New Delhi, India, Tel: 9711169572, Email: payal500@hotmail.comReceived Date: Jun 17, 2020 / Accepted Date: Jul 01, 2020 / Published Date: Jul 08, 2020
Citation: Yamini A, Isha G, Payal M (2020) Review on Bioremediation of Metal Contaminated Soils. J Bioremediat Biodegrad 11: 469.
Copyright: © 2020 Yamini A, et al. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
Abstract
Rapidly increasing population and industrialization are the major factors in environmental degradation. Development of eco-friendly approach to reduce environmental contamination is an issue in great demand. The challenge is to build up a cost-effective and safer technology for cleaning up of contaminated environments. Bioremediation is promising new technology to decontaminate polluted surroundings. Heavy metals are the major toxic non-biodegradable environmental pollutant and their cleanup from environment is a chief concern. Several conventional physical and chemical technologies have already been employed for their removal but majority of them are not very flourishing in terms of their cost and efficacy. Therefore, we present a review on status of studies employing biological materials (microbes and plants) for heavy metal removal and recovery.
