“…Metals (Okumus et al 2015;Dutta et al 2017;Aka and Babalola 2017), and hydrocarbons (Mutharasaiah et al 2011;Yao et al 2014;Suarez and Rifai 1999) have received much attention from Journal authors, as have agricultural practices and waste products (Ramarajan and Manohar 2017), manufacturing wastes (Khan et al 2014), and the abundance and biodegrading potential of marine organisms (Khosrowabadi and Huyop 2013). Models of various environmental mechanisms and processes were developed by a number of authors over the years (Farhan and Hatzinger 2009;Vaezihir et al 2012;Das Saha 2012;Tripathi and Kumar Garg 2014;Ling et al 2004) and others addressed solid wastes and their degradability using microorganisms (Garg and Gupta 2011). The depth and breadth of topics related to the SDGs listed above that have been studied by Journal authors since 1997 is very extensive and indicative of a keen interest in sustainability using biotechnology.…”