These bioremediation systems (including Phytoremediation) have a variety of applications including the clean-up of ground water, soils, lagoons, sludges, and process water streams. One of the important examples of large scale successful applications of bioremediation is the shore-line clea-up efforts in Alaska, where in 1989, an environmental hazard resulted from a large oil-spill. This led to a clean-up operation covering 70 miles of shore-line. There are numerous other successful applications of bioremediation including clean-up of pollution due to chemical spills.
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