3.Specific bio-risk and safety concerns. Some risks are genuine and others are mere fabrications. The general public is scared of anything genetically modified. Don t blame them but blame history. Lack of relevant education about the technology.
Bioremediation has to take specific social concerns seriously.
The public needs to be engaged fully. The environmental costs of landfill and bioremediation needs to be reassessed. The economic arguments does not work in favour of bioremediation and biotechnology industries. The public argument is that, there are vast amounts of land and food owned by few people with the large majority having to struggle over the little remaining. Large part of the public feel the issues is about distribution and equity.