It is a branch of science that completely deals with the cleaning of the environment. It especially targets the cleaning of the environmental media comprising of the surface water, groundwater, sediment and the soil. The goal is to remove the harmful contents and pollutants from these elements.

Environmental Remediation: The Reason Of Practice
The main reason to practice this is for the overall benefit of the humankind. The clean environment means the better living as far as the inhabitants are concerned. This also includes the human beings.
There are certain technologies in practice in this area and these are
Solidification:
In this technology, there is addition of reagents to contaminated media. By this process, there is limited invasion of the external agents.
Stabilization:
In this process, the reagents are added to product chemically stable constituents.
Dredging and Excavation:
This process is done so as to overhaul the contaminated media related to environment.

