Bioremediation is any process that uses microorganisms and/or enzymes to clean-up a certain contaminated area or ecosystem trying to regenerate its original state. This includes cleaning up pesticides, oil spills etc.. However, the limitation in this technique is that there are certain pollutants that it cannot remediate such as heavy metals.
However the good thing about this is that it makes cleaning areas that were out of reach possible, for example underground water contamination was out of reach, but with bioremediation bacterias can be introduced into the ground water and they can do their job!
Transgalactic Ltd. (2005). Retrived on July 9 from http://www.bionewsonline.com/w/what_is_bioremediation.htm
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