8.8.9 Clean-Up
United states Environmental Protection Agency has a database, Clean-Up Information which can help in innovative treatment of contaminated site and management of
waste remediation (https://clu-in.org/techfocus/default.focus/sec/Bioremediation/
cat/Overview/).
8.8.10 HSDB
A National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiative which is based on providing
information about the toxic nature of chemicals, impact on human health, ways to
introduce industrial hygiene, application of nanomaterials can be seen in this
databank: Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB) (https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB) (Zhu et al. 2017).
8.8.11 TOXNET
Other than this, another major resource for safeguarding environmental health and
resources is known as Environmental Health, Toxicology & Chemical Information,
which has different resources like TOXNET and Toxicology Subset (https://
envirotoxinfo.nlm.nih.gov/).
8.8.12 ToxTown
It has emerged as a database providing information about the chemicals and
contaminants, various sources through which we can be exposed to such chemicals
and also how the different diseases and medical conditions are even related to the
environmental factors (https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/diseases-and-conditions).
8.9
Conclusion
The focus of this study is to make us understand the role of protecting environment
which has been contaminated due to excessive using of chemicals in one or the other
form. The significance of plant/microbe based mode to remediate waste generated
both at the level of water and soil (based on biological mechanisms) can be done by
making use of processes like biosorption, phytoremediation.
The need is to make sure that we are able to provide and maintain such conditions
like optimum temperature, pH, high nutrient concentration which will naturally help
in the process of degradation of the heavy metals and the toxic chemicals. Thus
emphasis should be to identify the nature of toxic chemicals accumulated followed
by providing adequate environment to the specific plants and rhizospheric microbial
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United states Environmental Protection Agency has a database, Clean-Up Information which can help in innovative treatment of contaminated site and management of
waste remediation (https://clu-in.org/techfocus/default.focus/sec/Bioremediation/
cat/Overview/).
8.8.10 HSDB
A National Library of Medicine (NLM) initiative which is based on providing
information about the toxic nature of chemicals, impact on human health, ways to
introduce industrial hygiene, application of nanomaterials can be seen in this
databank: Hazardous Substances Databank (HSDB) (https://toxnet.nlm.nih.gov/
cgi-bin/sis/htmlgen?HSDB) (Zhu et al. 2017).
8.8.11 TOXNET
Other than this, another major resource for safeguarding environmental health and
resources is known as Environmental Health, Toxicology & Chemical Information,
which has different resources like TOXNET and Toxicology Subset (https://
envirotoxinfo.nlm.nih.gov/).
8.8.12 ToxTown
It has emerged as a database providing information about the chemicals and
contaminants, various sources through which we can be exposed to such chemicals
and also how the different diseases and medical conditions are even related to the
environmental factors (https://toxtown.nlm.nih.gov/diseases-and-conditions).
8.9
Conclusion
The focus of this study is to make us understand the role of protecting environment
which has been contaminated due to excessive using of chemicals in one or the other
form. The significance of plant/microbe based mode to remediate waste generated
both at the level of water and soil (based on biological mechanisms) can be done by
making use of processes like biosorption, phytoremediation.
The need is to make sure that we are able to provide and maintain such conditions
like optimum temperature, pH, high nutrient concentration which will naturally help
in the process of degradation of the heavy metals and the toxic chemicals. Thus
emphasis should be to identify the nature of toxic chemicals accumulated followed
by providing adequate environment to the specific plants and rhizospheric microbial
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J. Tomar