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Target audience

Our target audience is diverse and consists of organisations who work in the remediation industry as well as those seeking to remediate contaminated land, water and air.

The following list highlights the diversity of groups with an interest in the remediation of contaminated land:

  • Airports
  • Australian Government
  • Consultants
  • Contractors
  • Construction
  • Defence
  • Developers
  • Energy industries (eg petroleum, gas, electricity)
  • Extractive industries
  • Finance
  • Heavy engineering
  • Industry associations
  • Insurance specialists
  • Laboratories
  • Legal specialists
  • Local Government
  • Manufacturing and other companies with the potential to create a pollution problem and with a vested interest in managing a response
  • Mineral processing
  • Mining
  • Ports
  • Property managers (large entities)
  • Remediation product vendors
  • Regulators (EPA/mining/planning/health)
  • Research groups (ie. contamination, water, agriculture, mining, defence, health)
  • Road and rail authourities
  • Universities and other academic institutions responsible for under-graduate and post-graduate training, and research
  • Waste management companies
  • Water authorities.

Types of remediation

There are a wide range of innovative methods for cleaning up contamination in soils and water:

Bioremediation

Any process that uses microbes, fungi, plants or their enzymes to make contaminated sites safe for human use or environmentally healthy.

Phytoremediation

The use of special plants to clean up contaminated soil.

Bioavailability reduction

Various techniques for reducing the ability of contaminants to reach humans via water, food, dust or other pathways.