Environmental pollution created the need to search for new environmentally friendly, low-cost, and more efficient environmental clean-up techniques for its removal or reduction.

Bioremediation, a branch of environmental biotechnology, is nowadays considered as one of the most promising alternatives. This technology uses the amazing ability of microorganisms or plants to accumulate, detoxify, degrade, or remove environmental contaminants. Bioremediation provides complete transformation and/or even removal of organic and inorganic pollutants, even when they are present at low concentration. It is considered as a permanent solution rather than a remediation method, as it does not transfer hazardous wastes from a phase to another.

Continuous efforts are still done to understand the mechanisms by which microorganisms and plants remove or transform environmental pollutants. Thus, this special issue aims at bringing together researchers with different visions on bioremediation, while addressing recent advances and new ideas in the perspective of efficient process scale-up.

We respectfully invite researchers to contribute with high quality original research and review papers considering current practices, advances, and new perspectives in environmental pollution through bioremediation.

Potential topics include but are not limited to the following:

• In situ and ex situ bioremediation technologies
• Bioremediation of organic and metal contaminated environments
• Biosorption and bioaccumulation of environmental pollutants
• Microbial biodegradation and bioremediation
• Use of genetically engineered microorganisms
• Applications of biofilms in bioremediation and biotransformation of environmental pollutants
• Bioremediation and biomass reutilization
• Phytoremediation: role of plants in environmental remediation
• Interactions between microorganisms and plants
• Ecotoxicology and phytotoxicology
• Algal biotechnology
• Mathematical modelling in bioremediation process