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Bioremediation Solutions for Wastewater Treatment

The revised Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive, entered into force on 1 January 2025, protects human health and the environment from...

7 days ago

9th European Bioremediation Conference - ALL4BIOREM will be there!

NYMPHE, in collaboration with the #All4Biorem cluster, will participate in the 9th European Bioremediation Conference

Feb 11

The Alliance for Environmental Bioremediation is growing!

ALL4BIOREM – Meet the New Members of the EU Bioremediation Consortium! We now have 10 European projects.

Feb 7

Contaminated
environment solution

Contamination of the environment resulting from human activity affects climate change, food security and our well-being.
The EU-funded Nymphe project (New system-driven bioremediation of polluted habitats and environment) explores innovative nature-based bioremediation solutions to revitalize land and waters affected by deep environmental contamination.

What is bioremediation?

Bioremediation is a biotechnological method that exploits the natural abilities of micro- and macroorganisms, enzymes and plants to boosts their natural powers to adsorb, accumulate and degrade pollutants and toxins from soil, water, and other environments.

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Nymphe bioremediation strategies

Our nature-based bioremediation strategies are tailored to remove common pollutants like pharmaceuticals, pesticides, microplastics, chlorinated solvents, petroleum hydrocarbon, and heavy metals from different types of environments - soil, sediments, groundwater, wastewater and surface water.

To achieve that we will use multiple biologics - enzymes, proteins, bacteria and fungi, microalgae, plants and their associated microorganisms, bivalves and earthworms - suited for high-performance degradation of pollutants.
We will test our bioremediation procedures in four contaminated sites in Italy, Spain, Germany, and Greece.

With these strategies, we aspire to remove at least 90% of the pollutants in the examined sites and achieve environmental quality standards closer to Natura 2000 specifications to increase their level of biodiversity.

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