Abstract
Complex mixtures of chemicals, many defined as hazardous and toxic, increasingly enter surface soils through spills and unregulated land disposal. The regulatory and technical challenge is to use cost-effective control technologies that can treat complex chemical mixtures in contaminated soils and thereby reduce the resultant threat to human health and the environment. Bioremediation can be such a technology.
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Loehr, R.C. (1993). Bioremediation of soils. In: Daniel, D.E. (eds) Geotechnical Practice for Waste Disposal. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-3070-1_20
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