Patent ID: 8187862

Claim:
A bioremediation method for street cleaning, comprising providing a composition consisting essentially of at least one genus of Pseudomonas to street sweeping debris collected in a street cleaning process, the composition provided under conditions sufficient to reduce a level of at least one contaminant in the debris, resulting in at least partially bioremediated debris, the composition selected from the group consisting of (a) a combination of Pseudomonas putida strains B and E, (b) a combination of Pseudomonas fluorencens strain F and Pseudomonas putida strain I, (c) a combination of Pseudomonas putida strains B and E and Pseudomonas fluorencens strain G, (d) Pseudomonas putida strain B, (e) Pseudomonas putida strain E, (f) Pseudomonas putida strain I, (g) Pseudomonas fluorencens strain F, and combinations thereof.