Microbial Role in Cleaning Environmental Pollution

Soil pollution remediation employs strategies such as excavation, chemical immobilization, and biological processes. Bioremediation techniques are particularly effective, using indigenous or introduced microbes to degrade petroleum hydrocarbons, solvents, and pesticides. Phytoremediation, enhanced by rhizosphere-associated microbes, offers a green solution by promoting contaminant uptake or degradation via plant-microbe interactions. Recent studies highlight the success of microbial consortia in degrading polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs) in complex contaminated soils (Meckenstock et al., 2015).