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- Acid mine drainage and metal-rich mine water treatment with passive biological systems — sulfate-reducing bioreactors, compost wetlands, aerobic wetlands — instead of perpetual lime dosing
- Agricultural spraying drones instead of knapsack and manned aerial spraying
- Apple and pear storage without diphenylamine (DPA) and post-harvest fungicide drenches — dynamic controlled atmosphere (DCA), hot-water dipping, pre-harvest biocontrol and orchard sanitation
- Augmentative biological control in greenhouse vegetables instead of insecticide and acaricide programmes
- Bacteriophage therapy for bacterial disease in fish and shrimp farming instead of medicated-feed antibiotics
- Baking enzymes (fungal amylase, maltogenic amylase, xylanase, glucose oxidase, lipase) plus ascorbic acid instead of potassium bromate and azodicarbonamide as flour treatment agents
- Bio-based and safer solvents — Cyrene (dihydrolevoglucosenone from cellulose), 2-methyltetrahydrofuran (2-MeTHF from furfural/levulinic acid), ethyl lactate, bio-ethanol, γ-valerolactone, limonene — instead of NMP, DMF, DMAc, dichloromethane and other hazardous solvents
- Bio-based and soil-biodegradable plastics instead of fossil commodity plastics (PET, LDPE, PS) and their microplastics
- Bio-based binders and bio-solvents instead of petrochemical resins and VOC solvent systems in paints and coatings
- Bio-based building insulation — wood-fibre boards, hemp and flax mats, cellulose, straw, hempcrete, mycelium panels — instead of polystyrene/polyurethane foams with brominated or chlorinated flame retardants and isocyanate spray foams
- Bio-based plasticizers — epoxidized soybean/linseed oil (ESBO), citrate esters (ATBC), isosorbide diesters, castor-oil derivatives — instead of ortho-phthalates (DEHP, DBP, BBP, DIBP) in PVC
- Biochar as a composting and manure additive, a feed additive and a low-cost sorbent for water and soil treatment — instead of coal-based activated carbon, chemical odour and ammonia binders, and part of clay toxin binders
- Biochar made by clean pyrolysis of crop, forestry and processing residues — used as a soil amendment and sold as durable carbon removal — instead of open burning, dumping or landfilling of those residues
- Biodegradable scrub particles and exfoliants instead of polyethylene microbeads
- Biodegradable, bio-based lubricants and hydraulic fluids (vegetable-oil and synthetic esters) — instead of mineral-oil lubricants in forestry, agriculture, marine, rail and water-adjacent machinery
- Biodiesel, renewable diesel (HVO) and SAF instead of fossil diesel and heating oil
- Bioethanol as fuel and octane/oxygenate instead of MTBE, high-aromatic petrol and fossil petrol
- Biofilm control by enzymes and bacteriophages instead of oxidizing and non-oxidizing biocides in cooling and process water
- Biogas and biomethane from organic waste instead of firewood, charcoal, LPG and diesel
- Biological desulfurisation of biogas and sour gas instead of chemical scrubbing
- Biological wastewater treatment and bio-coagulants instead of alum, ferric chloride and synthetic polyelectrolytes
- Biomass district heating instead of heating oil and coal
- Biopreservation of raw and minimally processed food with bacteriophages, protective cultures and bacteriocins (nisin) — instead of chlorine washes and part of synthetic preservatives
- Biosurfactant and APG cleansing — sophorolipids, rhamnolipids, alkyl polyglucosides — instead of petrochemical SLES/SLS
- Biosurfactants (rhamnolipids, sophorolipids) instead of petrochemical surfactants in cleaning and industrial formulation
- Bumblebee pollination instead of hormone sprays and manual vibration in greenhouse tomatoes
- Cassava mealybug classical biological control with Anagyrus lopezi instead of insecticides
- Cattle tick control with the Bm86 anti-tick vaccine, tick-resistant breeds, pasture spelling and entomopathogenic fungi (Metarhizium)
- Citric acid by Aspergillus niger fermentation instead of extraction from citrus fruit
- Composting and anaerobic digestion of separately collected biowaste instead of landfill
- Conifer root and butt rot (Heterobasidion) prevention by stump treatment with the competitive fungus Phlebiopsis gigantea (Rotstop) — instead of chemical stump treatments
- Constructed (treatment) wetlands for villages, farms, small towns and stormwater — instead of chemical precipitation, chlorination of effluent, or discharge of untreated wastewater
- Controlled fruit ripening with ethylene (including ethylene from bio-ethanol) in ripening rooms — instead of calcium carbide
- Copper (and nickel/cobalt) recovery from low-grade and secondary sulfide ores by heap and dump bioleaching + SX-EW — instead of concentration and smelting
- Crop disease forecasting models, spore traps, pheromone and smart pest traps and field diagnostics — spray when risk is real instead of calendar-based fungicide and insecticide programmes
- Crop residues (rice and wheat straw, cane trash) managed by in-situ incorporation with microbial decomposers, mulching and collection for biogas/bio-CNG instead of open-field burning
- Dairy mastitis prevention with selective dry-cow therapy, internal teat sealants and bacteriocin (nisin) teat disinfection
- Dengue, Zika and chikungunya prevention with Wolbachia-infected Aedes aegypti (population replacement) and incompatible insect technique — instead of repeated insecticide fogging
- Detergent enzymes for low-temperature washing instead of phosphates, extra surfactant and hot washing
- Disease-resistant crop varieties (marker-assisted breeding, stacked resistance genes, cisgenesis) instead of routine fungicide spray programmes
- Disease-resistant fish and shrimp lines (QTL- and genomic selection, SPF/SPR broodstock) instead of antibiotics, formalin and pond chemicals
- Disease-resistant livestock genetics — genomic selection, adapted breeds, gene-edited PRRS-resistant pigs — instead of routine antibiotics, acaricides and repeated mass treatment
- Drone release of beneficial insects (Trichogramma, Cotesia, predatory mites) instead of insecticide sprays
- Durable wood without toxic preservatives — furfurylated wood (from agricultural residues), acetylated wood, thermally modified wood, naturally durable species and constructive protection — instead of CCA, creosote and biocidal impregnation
- Edible wax and essential-oil coatings on fresh produce instead of synthetic postharvest fungicides in wax
- Enhanced biological phosphorus removal instead of chemical precipitation with metal salts
- Enteric methane from cattle and sheep reduced by bromoform-containing red seaweed (Asparagopsis), essential-oil and plant-extract feed additives, and low-methane genetics — instead of unabated emissions and synthetic inhibitors alone
- Enzymatic degumming (phospholipases) and enzymatic interesterification (immobilized lipases) of edible oils instead of acid–caustic chemical degumming and sodium-methoxide chemical interesterification
- Enzymatic high-fructose syrup from starch instead of sucrose and acid hydrolysis
- Farm nitrate and phosphate runoff controlled by biology — denitrifying bioreactors, wetlands and algal uptake — instead of end-of-pipe chemical dosing
- Feed enzymes (phytase) and fermentation amino acids instead of inorganic phosphate and excess crude protein
- Feed hygiene without formaldehyde — fermentation organic acids, inoculants and heat treatment
- Fermentation (stainless and single-use bioreactors, solid-state reactors) and downstream equipment (centrifuges, filtration, spray and fluid-bed drying, formulation) for local production of enzymes, microbial products and fermentation ingredients instead of chemical-synthesis plants and imports
- Fermentation and algal food colours instead of azo dyes (tartrazine, sunset yellow) and titanium dioxide
- Fermentation and plant-derived sweeteners instead of aspartame, saccharin and sucralose
- Fermentation cosmetic ingredients instead of shark-liver squalene, rooster-comb hyaluronic acid and animal collagen
- Fermentation- and sugar-derived platform chemicals (lactic acid, succinic acid, 1,3-propanediol, 1,4-butanediol, bio-ethylene and bio-MEG) instead of the same building blocks made from oil and gas
- Fermentation-produced chymosin instead of calf rennet in cheesemaking
- Fermentation-produced vitamins (B2, B12, C routes) instead of multi-step chemical synthesis
- Fish louse (Argulus) control in ponds and lakes with egg-laying substrate boards, pond drying/liming and biological management — instead of organophosphate treatments
- Fish vaccination (plus biosecurity and probiotics) instead of prophylactic/metaphylactic antibiotics in finfish aquaculture
- Fly control in livestock barns with parasitoid wasps (Spalangia, Muscidifurax), Beauveria bassiana, predatory beetles and manure management
- Food and market organic waste treated by black soldier fly (BSF) larvae, composting and bokashi fermentation instead of landfilling, open dumping and incineration of wet waste
- Forest defoliator control (Siberian silk moth, spongy/gypsy moth, nun moth, pine moths) with Bt kurstaki, nucleopolyhedrovirus (NPV) and pheromone mating disruption — instead of aerial chemical insecticides
- Formaldehyde-free wood-based panels (plywood, particleboard, MDF) with bio-based adhesives — soy-protein, lignin, tannin and other bio-adhesives — instead of urea-formaldehyde (UF), melamine-UF and phenol-formaldehyde resins
- Garden, allotment and lawn pest control with beneficial nematodes — Phasmarhabditis against slugs, Steinernema/Heterorhabditis against vine weevil, chafer grubs, leatherjackets — instead of metaldehyde pellets and soil insecticides
- Gas-fermented single-cell protein (methane, CO2 and industrial off-gas) instead of fishmeal and imported protein concentrates in feed
- Genomic selection in dairy cattle breeding instead of progeny testing
- Glutamate and MSG by bacterial fermentation instead of protein hydrolysis and chemical synthesis
- Grafting onto resistant rootstocks, biological/anaerobic soil disinfestation and biofumigation, and soilless (substrate and hydroponic) culture instead of methyl bromide and chemical soil fumigants
- Grease- and water-resistant food packaging without PFAS — dense molded fibre, glassine/high-density paper, and bio-based barrier coatings (chitosan, alginate, starch, proteins, plant waxes, PHA dispersions)
- Hatchery and livestock-house disinfection without formaldehyde — hydrogen peroxide / peracetic acid, UV-C, and probiotic (Bacillus-based) cleaning to rebuild a beneficial surface microbiome
- Honeybee Varroa control with organic acids (oxalic, formic, lactic), thymol, brood interruption, drone-brood removal and Varroa-resistant bees (VSH, Primorsky/Russian bees)
- Household and institutional cleaning without triclosan, excess quaternary ammonium compounds (QACs) and routine chlorine — plain soap, enzyme-based detergents and probiotic (Bacillus) cleaners
- Industrial biocatalysis (enzymes and whole cells) — e.g. nitrile hydratase for acrylamide, engineered transaminase for sitagliptin, enzymatic antibiotic side-chain processes — instead of heavy-metal catalysts, high-pressure hydrogenation and multistep chemistry with toxic reagents
- Insect meal, single-cell protein and algal ingredients instead of fishmeal and soybean meal in feed
- Insect-resistant (Bt) crop varieties — cotton, maize, soybean, eggplant — instead of broad-spectrum insecticide sprays against bollworms, stem borers and fruit borers
- Invasive floating aquatic weed control (water hyacinth, salvinia, water lettuce, alligator weed) with host-specific biocontrol insects — instead of repeated aquatic herbicide spraying
- Lake and pond algal-bloom (cyanobacteria) control by nutrient reduction, biomanipulation (fish-stock management, zooplankton), submerged-plant restoration and floating wetlands — instead of copper sulfate and chemical algicides
- Landfill gas and organic-waste biomethane instead of flaring, fugitive methane and fossil gas
- Leather processing with enzymatic unhairing/bating and vegetable or other chromium-free tanning (mimosa, quebracho, chestnut, olive-leaf extract) — instead of sodium sulfide liming and chromium(III) tanning
- Lower-toxicity textile dyeing and dye-effluent treatment with biological methods — bio-based indigo reduction and enzymatic indigo routes, microbial pigments, and biological decolorization of dye effluent — instead of sodium dithionite reduction, aniline-derived synthetic indigo and untreated/chemically treated dye effluent
- Manure methane, ammonia and odour cut by anaerobic digestion with covered storage, low-protein diets balanced with fermentation amino acids, and biological air treatment of livestock houses — instead of open lagoons, sulfuric-acid slurry acidification and masking agents
- Mediterranean fruit fly control by the sterile insect technique instead of insecticide bait sprays
- Metal-contaminated soils, mine tailings and smelter sites managed by phytostabilization, phytoextraction and rhizoremediation (gentle remediation options) instead of excavation, soil washing and inert capping
- Microalgal omega-3 oils (DHA/EPA) instead of fish oil and krill oil
- Mosquito and blackfly control with Bacillus thuringiensis israelensis (Bti) and Lysinibacillus sphaericus larvicides, source reduction, and plant-based repellents — instead of organophosphate larvicides and pyrethroid space fogging
- Mycotoxin detoxification in feed with specific enzymes and microbes — fumonisin esterase (FumD), trichothecene-degrading bacterium BBSH 797, zearalenone hydrolase
- Mycotoxin risk managed by enzymes and biological detoxification instead of clay binders alone
- Natural antioxidants — tocopherols, rosemary extract, ascorbyl palmitate — instead of BHA and BHT
- Natural antioxidants (mixed tocopherols, rosemary extract, other plant polyphenols) instead of ethoxyquin in fishmeal, fish oil and aquafeeds
- Neonatal calf diarrhoea without prophylactic antibiotics — dam vaccination, colostrum management, lactic-acid-bacteria probiotics and oral rehydration
- New World screwworm eradication by the sterile insect technique instead of insecticide wound treatment
- Nitrogen-fixing and nutrient-mobilizing microbes (Azospirillum, Azotobacter, engineered root-associated diazotrophs) for maize, wheat and rice instead of part of the urea dose
- Odour, H₂S, ammonia and VOC emissions treated by biofilters, biotrickling filters and bioscrubbers instead of chemical scrubbers (caustic/hypochlorite/acid) and thermal oxidizers
- Oil and petroleum-product pollution clean-up by bioremediation — nutrient biostimulation, oil-degrading microbial preparations, landfarming/biopiles and phytoremediation — instead of chemical dispersants, burning and landfilling
- Oil-reservoir and pipeline souring (H2S) control by nitrate injection (biocompetitive exclusion by nitrate-reducing bacteria) — instead of continuous biocide dosing
- Oilfield produced water treated biologically instead of chemical-only conditioning and disposal
- On-farm and regional biofactories (multiplication units, media, quality control) for microbial bio-inputs — Bacillus, Trichoderma, Beauveria, Bt, beneficial insects — instead of importing finished chemical pesticides and fertilizers
- On-farm culture, PCR panels, rapid tests and veterinary laboratory services for livestock and aquaculture — treat what is diagnosed instead of blanket and prophylactic antibiotic treatment
- Organic and organo-mineral fertilizers made from biogas digestate, compost, vermicompost and insect frass instead of part of mineral NPK
- Paint and coating preservation with less isothiazolinone biocide — formulation hygiene, low-water-activity and bio-based boosters
- Peat-free and peat-reduced growing media (coir, wood fibre, composted bark, green-waste compost, sphagnum farming) instead of extracted peat
- Pesticide-free weed management in towns, parks, railways-adjacent areas and gardens — design, mulching, mowing regimes ("let it grow"), hot water/steam, and bio-based contact herbicides (pelargonic acid, acetic acid)
- Petroleum-contaminated soil and drill cuttings cleaned by bioremediation (landfarming, biopiles, bioaugmentation, biostimulation) instead of excavation to landfill, incineration/thermal desorption and chemical oxidation
- Piglet post-weaning diarrhoea without pharmacological zinc oxide and colistin — live oral E. coli vaccine, fermented liquid feed, probiotics and low-protein diets
- Plant biostimulants (seaweed extracts, protein hydrolysates, humic and fulvic substances) instead of extra mineral nitrogen and synthetic plant growth regulators for stress
- Plant-based meat and dairy analogues and cultivated (cell-cultured) meat and seafood instead of a share of conventional meat and its antibiotic, antiparasitic and feed-chain chemical inputs
- Post-harvest decay control of citrus, pome, stone and tropical fruit with antagonistic yeasts (Metschnikowia, Candida, Aureobasidium), hot-water treatment and chitosan coatings — instead of synthetic post-harvest fungicides
- Potato sprout suppression in storage with spearmint oil (carvone), orange oil, ethylene and cold storage — instead of chlorpropham (CIPC)
- Poultry coccidiosis control with live Eimeria vaccines (and phytogenic support) instead of continuous in-feed ionophores and chemical coccidiostats
- Poultry gut health without antibiotic growth promoters and colistin — competitive exclusion cultures, Bacillus probiotics and bacteriophages
- Poultry red mite (Dermanyssus gallinae) control with predatory mites (Androlaelaps casalis, Cheyletus eruditus), silica/diatomaceous earth and heat — instead of illegal fipronil and carbamate/pyrethroid sprays
- Precision-fermentation dairy and egg proteins (whey, casein, ovalbumin) and fungal biomass protein (mycoprotein) instead of a share of antibiotic- and land-intensive animal protein
- Prickly pear control in Australia with Cactoblastis cactorum instead of chemical and mechanical clearing
- Process equipment for residue-to-product plants — anaerobic digesters and biogas upgrading, composting turners and granulation lines, biomass pelleting, pyrolysis and carbonization kilns — instead of incinerators, landfill, open lagoons and open burning
- Pulp bleaching with xylanase enzyme pre-bleaching and ECF/TCF processes (oxygen, peroxide, ozone) — instead of elemental chlorine bleaching; with biological effluent treatment
- Recovered phosphorus (struvite and other recovered phosphates from biological wastewater and digester streams) instead of fertilizer made from cadmium-bearing phosphate rock
- Refractory gold ore processing by bacterial biooxidation (BIOX® and similar tank bioleaching) — instead of roasting; with biological cyanide destruction of tailings water
- Riboflavin (vitamin B2) by fermentation instead of multi-step chemical synthesis
- Road and pavement de-icing with bio-based deicers (acetates from fermentation, agricultural by-product brines such as beet-molasses residues) and salt-reduction practices — instead of heavy use of chloride salts and chloride "reagent" mixtures
- Ruminant gastrointestinal nematode control without blanket macrocyclic lactone dosing — nematode-trapping fungus Duddingtonia flagrans, tannin-rich forages, targeted selective treatment (FAMACHA) and grazing management
- Salmon lice control with cleaner fish (lumpfish, wrasse), lice-barrier cage designs ("snorkel", skirts), functional feeds and fallowing — instead of chemical bath and in-feed delousing
- Saprolegnia (water mould) and egg-fungus control without malachite green and formalin — UV water treatment, salt, hydrogen peroxide, antagonistic bacteria and hatchery hygiene
- Self-healing bio-concrete and microbial repair mortars (bacteria producing limestone, microbially induced calcite precipitation, MICP) — instead of epoxy and polyurethane crack injection and some chemical sealants
- Sewage sludge and faecal sludge stabilized biologically — anaerobic digestion, thermophilic co-composting, sludge treatment (drying) reed beds — instead of lime stabilization, landfilling, incineration-only and raw dumping
- Shrimp farming with biofloc technology, Bacillus probiotics and specific-pathogen-free (SPF) broodstock instead of antibiotics and pond chemicals
- Soil-biodegradable mulch films (certified to EN 17033: starch/PLA/PBAT/PHA blends) and paper/organic mulches — instead of conventional polyethylene (PE) mulch films that fragment into soil microplastics
- Solid biofuel — pellets, briquettes and residue fuels — instead of coal in boilers and kilns
- Spruce bark beetle (Ips typographus) and pine beetle management by early sanitation felling, pheromone monitoring, anti-aggregation pheromones and forest diversification — instead of insecticide-treated trap logs, nets and log-pile spraying
- Sugarcane and palm-oil mill residues — vinasse, filter cake (press mud), bagasse, palm oil mill effluent (POME) and empty fruit bunches (EFB) — anaerobically digested, composted and returned to the field instead of raw discharge, open anaerobic lagoons, burning and mineral fertilizer
- Textile wet processing with enzymes — bio-scouring (pectinase), enzymatic desizing (amylase), cellulase "bio-stoning" and laccase denim bleaching, catalase peroxide removal — instead of caustic scouring, pumice stonewashing, potassium permanganate spraying and hypochlorite bleaching
- Yeast cell-wall (MOS/β-glucan), nucleotide and postbiotic additives instead of the antibiotic-growth-promoter era's ingredient logic