The technologies can be applied to many areas of industrial processes such as management of waste materials, recycling waste into useful products and cleaner production methods.
EBCRC is helping industry work smarter to reduce operational costs, improve efficiency and reduce the ecological footprint.
Improvements in environmental management can be leveraged from advances in biotechnology that have benefited medical science and the pharmaceutical industry.

Only 4.5% of Australia's biotech research is in environmental work. EBCRC will more than double this by spending over $60 million. Potential outcomes could be worth billions of dollars.

Australia has a strong research base in biotechnology, but is yet to realise its potential for the development of new industries producing new products in the environment sector.

Through its strong industry focus, EBCRC will harness these skills for the benefit of the economy and the environment. R&D projects are selected to meet the criteria of needs-based research, and having significant potential for investment return.

Outputs include valuable chemicals from waste, improvements in the efficiency of waste treatment, control of biofilms in water supply, wastewater and industrial processes, diagnostic devices, odour control, bioremediation and transforming low value by-products into high valued products.