Environmental Biotechnology
Biotechnology
is applied and used to study the natural environment. Environmental
biotechnology might additionally imply that one attempt to harness process for
business uses and exploitation. Environmental
biotechnology as "the development, use and
regulation of biological systems for correction of contaminated environments
and for environment-friendly processes (green manufacturing technologies and
property development). Environmental biotechnology will merely be delineated as
"the best use of nature, within the style of plants, animals, bacteria,
fungi
and alga,
to supply renewable energy, food
and nutrients
in a very synergistic integrated cycle of profit creating methods wherever the
waste of every process becomes the feedstock for an additional process". U.S.
sales of environmental biotechnology merchandise were valued at $241.2 million
in two012. This can be expected to extend at a complete compound annual rate of
growth (CAGR) of seven.9%, with 2013 sales of $261.9 million, rising to $382.3
million in 2018. Biotechnology in reducing the utilization of chemical
pesticides, herbicides
and fertilizers