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Fate of environmental pollutants: A review

Water Environment Research 2020 78 citations ? Citation count from OpenAlex, updated daily. May differ slightly from the publisher's own count. Score: 40 ? 0–100 AI score estimating relevance to the microplastics field. Papers below 30 are filtered from public browse.
Niroj Aryal, Jonaé Wood, Ishara Rijal, Dongyang Deng, Manoj K. Jha, Andrea Ofori‐Boadu

Summary

This review surveys 2019 literature on the fate of environmental pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, PFAS, nanomaterials, heavy metals, and pathogens, covering their occurrence, transport, and transformation across environmental compartments.

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A review of the literature published in 2019 on topics associated with the fate of environmental pollutants is presented. Environmental pollutants covered include pharmaceuticals, antibiotic-resistant bacteria and genes, pesticides and veterinary medicines, personal care products and emerging pollutants, PFAS, microplastics, nanomaterials, heavy metals and radionuclides, nutrients, pathogens and indicator organisms, and oil and hydrocarbons. For each pollutant, the occurrence in the environment and/or their fate in engineered as well as natural systems in matrices including water, soil, wastewater, stormwater, runoff, and/or manure is presented based on the published literature. The review includes current developments in understanding pollutants in natural and engineered systems, and relevant physico-chemical processes, as well as biological processes.

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