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Bioeconomics in solving environmental problems
Summary
This paper examines how biotechnology — using living organisms and biological processes — can address environmental problems including pollution cleanup, sustainable energy, and biodegradable materials. Biotechnological approaches such as plastic-degrading microbes are increasingly relevant to solving the microplastic pollution crisis.
Biotechnology is defined as any technological application that uses biological systems, living organisms or their derivatives to produce or modify products or processes for a specific use. The large-scale use of biotechnologies in industry, agriculture, as well as in many other types of economic activity is considered in many countries of the West (USA, Germany, France, Great Britain, Italy, etc.) and the East (China, India, Indonesia, Japan, etc.) as the most important condition for innovative and sustainable development. The progress achieved made it possible to consider the created biotechnologies as the basis of a new field of activity - bioeconomy.
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