Open AccessRecovery of precious metals from waste streams
Author(s) -
He Jing,
Kappler Andreas
Publication year - 2017
Publication title -
microbial biotechnology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.287
H-Index - 74
ISSN - 1751-7915
DOI - 10.1111/1751-7915.12759
Subject(s) - bioremediation , business , population , waste management , natural resource economics , sustainability , environmental science , pace , environmental planning , environmental protection , engineering , ecology , geography , contamination , biology , demography , geodesy , sociology , economics
As there is a high potential for microbe‐based technologies to bring the recovery of metals from waste streams to an ecologically friendly and financially reasonable level, it is worth to invest efforts into the advancement of these biotechnologies in the future.