Abstract:

The concept of sustainable development has become an important objective for policy makers, since the key principle of
sustainable development understands the interdependence between economy, environment and society concerns.
The objective of this study is to analyze the supports for sustainable environmental remediation, considering sustainability
indicators and sustainable remediation practices, based on both methods that are known for a long time as well as emergent
processes and technologies. The remediation system goal is to promote environmental quality, human health, well–being and
safety. The emergence of sustainability ideas during the past two decades has catalyzed high levels of activity in generating facts
on sustainability in the form of bioremediation and biomimetics, and also of indicators as metrics. Indicators are used for
monitoring and assessment of various environmental impacts, and for social and economic issues. Bioremediation and biomimetic
practices proved to be among the most sustainable for environmental remediation, where performed according to the type of
contaminant, environmental component etc. So, they are applied for cleaning soils, surface water, groundwater, air contaminated
with a wide range of toxic, persistent, recalcitrant chemicals.