Abstract: A heavy metal-resistant recombinant bacterium capable to remove mercury (II) species, cadmium and copper (II) in presence of other heavy metals from polluted sites, which corresponds to Cupriavidus metallidurans strain MSR33, deposited under the access number NRRL B-50299, a product for the bioremediation of environments contaminated with heavy metals, where the product includes a bacterial inoculum of this recombinant strain, the process of obtaining the product and a method for the bioremediation of environments contaminated with heavy metals, which uses this product for the bioremediation.