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Plantation-Based Soil Reclamation of Emerging Contaminants
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Researchers reviewed plantation-based soil reclamation approaches for removing emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors, assessing how different plant species and root-zone processes contribute to contaminant uptake and degradation in polluted soils.
Soil pollution with emerging contaminants such as human and veterinary pharmaceuticals, antibiotics, steroids, endocrine disruptors, perfluorinated compounds, water disinfection by-products, gasoline, industrial additives, and microplastics is one of the most...
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Tackling New-generation Pollutants in Soil: How Modified Biochar Redefines Remediation Strategies?
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This study examined how modified biochar can simultaneously adsorb and catalytically degrade multiple emerging contaminants including microplastics, persistent organic pollutants, and antibiotics in soil systems. Effective soil remediation strategies are critical because agricultural microplastic accumulation contaminates crops and soil biota, creating ongoing food-chain exposure routes for humans.
Current Approaches to Bioremediation of Newly Discovered Contaminants
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This review surveys bioremediation strategies—using microbes, plants, and enzymes—for degrading or immobilizing emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and PFAS that conventional treatment systems fail to eliminate. Biological approaches offer sustainable, lower-energy alternatives to chemical treatment, though scaling them up to handle the volume and variety of contaminants entering waterways remains an active challenge.
Role of Microorganisms in Eco-remediation
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Microorganisms capable of colonizing and partially degrading plastic surfaces offer a biological avenue for eco-remediation of plastic pollution in both terrestrial and aquatic environments. Harnessing microbial communities to break down microplastics could reduce their persistence in ecosystems and lower the long-term burden on human health.
Role of Microorganisms in Eco-remediation
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Certain microorganisms can degrade plastic polymers or mitigate the toxic effects of microplastics on ecosystems, offering a bioremediation pathway for contaminated soils and waters. Harnessing microbial communities for plastic degradation could complement waste reduction strategies, though scaling these solutions remains a significant challenge.
The Interactions of Emergent Contaminants (ECs) with Soil Microbiome.
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Researchers review how emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, industrial chemicals, and microplastics interact with soil microbial communities, finding they alter microbial diversity, disrupt nutrient cycling, and compromise soil health, with urban environments showing the most acute contamination due to industrial activity and poor waste management.
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