To provide a photosynthetic bacterial strain that has an improved ability of adsorbing heavy metal, a radioactive material or the like, and an environmental cleanup method using the photosynthetic bacterial strain.SOLUTION: A photosynthetic bacterial strain comprises an SSI sediment 5 containing at least a sediment 3, obtained by adding a burnable, organic polymer coagulation sedimentation agent to a culture medium 1 of Rhodobacter sphaeroides SSI strain.SELECTED DRAWING: Figure 1
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