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How biotechnology helps in waste treatment? - Environmental Science

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How biotechnology helps in waste treatment?

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  1. Certain bacteria and microbes can adapt to and live in various environments, where they break down materials for their own use, including mine waste and solid waste.
  2. Using gene technology, researchers have the potential to enhance these properties and create new Using gene technology, researchers have the potential to enhance these properties and create new waste solutions.
  3. Researchers are investigating the development of valuable byproducts from waste, such as wastes from meat processors and other food processing industries.
  4. The by-products from waste are developed into useful products such as fish and livestock feeds, fertiliser, recycled water, and biogas.
  5. Biotechnology is used in waste water treatment, such as High-rate anaerobic digester for the treatment of high-strength waste water (such as food processing and sugar refinery wastewaters ), specialised microbial· populations for the emergency treatment of polluted waters, etc.
  6. Biotechnology is an innovative, advanced technology with wide present and widening future potential.
  7. It is apparent that with the advent of biotechnology and genetic engineering, we can manage waste very easily and effectively.
  8. We, the people of the 21st century, are concerned with waste management as well as we think about our climate.
  9. So, avoiding chemical treatment and taking the biological system for waste management will lead us to a livable world.
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