Editing Biotechnology (section)

===Environmental===

[[Environmental biotechnology]] includes various disciplines that play an essential role in reducing environmental waste and providing [[Environmentally friendly|environmentally safe]] processes, such as [[Biofilter|biofiltration]] and [[biodegradation]].<ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Pakshirajan|first1=Kannan|last2=Rene|first2=Eldon R.|last3=Ramesh|first3=Aiyagari|date=2014|title=Biotechnology in environmental monitoring and pollution abatement|journal=BioMed Research International|volume=2014|page=235472|doi=10.1155/2014/235472|issn=2314-6141|pmc=4017724|pmid=24864232|doi-access=free}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal|last1=Danso|first1=Dominik|last2=Chow|first2=Jennifer|last3=Streit|first3=Wolfgang R.|date=2019-10-01|title=Plastics: Environmental and Biotechnological Perspectives on Microbial Degradation|journal=Applied and Environmental Microbiology|volume=85|issue=19|doi=10.1128/AEM.01095-19|issn=1098-5336|pmc=6752018|pmid=31324632|bibcode=2019ApEnM..85E1095D }}</ref> The environment can be affected by biotechnologies, both positively and adversely. Vallero and others have argued that the difference between beneficial biotechnology (e.g., [[bioremediation]] is to clean up an oil spill or hazard chemical leak) versus the adverse effects stemming from biotechnological enterprises (e.g., flow of genetic material from transgenic organisms into wild strains) can be seen as applications and implications, respectively.<ref>[[Daniel A. Vallero]], ''Environmental Biotechnology: A Biosystems Approach'', Academic Press, Amsterdam, NV; {{ISBN|978-0-12-375089-1}}; 2010.</ref> Cleaning up environmental wastes is an example of an application of [[environmental biotechnology]]; whereas [[Biodiversity loss|loss of biodiversity]] or loss of containment of a harmful microbe are examples of environmental implications of biotechnology.{{cn|date=May 2024}}

Many cities have installed [[CityTrees]], which use biotechnology to filter pollutants from urban atmospheres.<ref>{{Cite news |date=2023-11-09 |title=Debate on robot trees looks to clear the air: What are other countries doing? |url=https://www.echolive.ie/corknews/arid-41266045.html |access-date=2024-01-17 |newspaper=The Echo |language=en}}</ref>