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Biological Treatment of Water Contaminants: A New Insight
Summary
Despite its title referencing biological treatment of water contaminants, this appears to be a brief overview chapter examining how bacteria, algae, and fungi can remove a range of pollutants from water — not a study specifically focused on microplastics. The abstract is truncated, but the paper covers broad biological remediation approaches rather than microplastic-specific research.
Biological treatment of water contaminants can be performed by bacteria, algae or fungi, and the contaminants that these organisms can remove are very diverse and can range from metals [...]
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