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Aquatic Plants in phytoremediation of contaminated water: Recent knowledge and future prospects
Summary
This paper is not about microplastics; it reviews phytoremediation — the use of aquatic plants to remove heavy metals from contaminated water — covering sources of heavy metal pollution, remediation techniques, and factors affecting plant uptake efficiency.
The increase of heavy metals in natural resources, including land and water has been rapidly raised due to a variety of natural methods, higher agricultural activities, contaminated irrigation water, speedy industrial development, amplified industrial wastes and mining. Heavy metals (HM) are able to remain in the environment longer time and go in the food chain, and ultimately accumulate in humans for biomagnification since they are not biodegradable. HMs contamination is extremely dangerous for humans and the ecology due to its poisonous nature. Traditional methods of cleanup are expensive and could harm the environment. Therefore, phytoremediation is an alternate method via plants to eliminate toxic HMs from the atmosphere as well as to avoid additional contamination, due to its environment-friendly, economic, efficient, exclusive and cost-effective approach. Aquatic plants can be utilized to decontaminate the contaminated sites as they are not food crops, thus reducing the danger of food chain contamination. Here, sources of HMs and their impact on human health have been briefly discussed. Several phytoremediation techniques and factors affecting the phytoremediation methods are also described. In addition, different strategies to decontaminate the metal-polluted water using aquatic plants are also reviewed. Finally, future perspectives for usages of aquatic plants in phytoremediation techniques were briefly summarised.
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