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ClearBioremediation: Removing Microplastics from Soil
This book chapter reviews bioremediation techniques for removing microplastics from soil, covering the origin and properties of microplastic particles and emerging biological approaches to degrade or extract them from terrestrial ecosystems. It highlights the urgent need for scalable, low-cost solutions — particularly relevant for developing nations where microplastic contamination of agricultural soils is poorly managed.
Soil Microplastic Pollution and its Remediation: An Overview
This overview reviews the scope of microplastic pollution in soils globally, summarizing contamination sources, effects on soil ecosystems, and available remediation strategies including physical, chemical, and biological approaches to address this emerging environmental problem.
Technologies for Removal and Remediation of Microplastics
This book chapter reviews physical, chemical, biological, and hybrid technologies for removing microplastics from water, air, soil, and food environments. It systematically covers removal mechanisms and performance data for each technology type and discusses current limitations and future research directions.
Innovative Approaches to Mitigating Microplastic Pollution in Effluents and Soils
This review critically analyzed innovative approaches for removing microplastics from effluents and soils, comparing conventional techniques like filtration and coagulation with emerging technologies. Researchers found that while traditional methods show some effectiveness, advanced approaches including membrane bioreactors, electrocoagulation, and bioremediation offer improved removal rates and sustainability for addressing microplastic pollution.
Mitigation of Microplastics
This book chapter examines strategies for managing and mitigating microplastic contamination in terrestrial environments, covering source reduction, physical removal techniques, bioremediation approaches, and policy frameworks needed to address the scale of soil plastic pollution.
Technological System to Increase the Rate of Plastic Collections from Soil
This chapter examines advanced technological systems for collecting and extracting microplastics from soil, reviewing various separation and extraction techniques designed to address the significant threat that microplastic contamination poses to terrestrial ecosystems.
Eco-friendly microplastic removal through physical and chemical techniques: a review
This review covers physical and chemical methods for removing microplastics from soil and water with low environmental impact, evaluating techniques such as filtration, coagulation, bioremediation, and photocatalysis for their effectiveness and ecological safety.
Removal technologies of microplastics in soil and water environments: review on sources, ecotoxicity, and removal technologies
This review covers the sources, toxic effects, and removal methods for microplastics in both soil and water environments. The authors found that while various treatment technologies exist, most are still in early stages and preventing microplastics from entering the environment in the first place may be more practical than trying to clean them up afterward. The review also notes that far fewer studies have examined microplastic toxicity in soil organisms compared to aquatic species, leaving a significant knowledge gap.
Confronting microplastic pollution: integrative approaches for a sustainable future
This mini-review surveys current strategies for combating microplastic pollution, covering physical, chemical, biological, and adsorption-based remediation methods. The study suggests that integrating multiple approaches and advancing biodegradation research will be essential for effectively addressing microplastic contamination across terrestrial and aquatic environments.
Paving the way toward soil safety and health: current status, challenges, and potential solutions
This review examines the global threats to soil health from industrial chemical contamination and explores potential solutions including monitoring, advanced remediation technologies, and holistic soil management. While covering soil pollution broadly, it is relevant to microplastics because they are a major and growing soil contaminant that is extremely difficult to remove once introduced. The review emphasizes that preventing pollutants from entering soil is far more effective and less costly than trying to clean up contamination afterward.
Microplastics in complex soil matrix: Recovery, identification and removal using micro nano techniques
Researchers reviewed current methods for finding and removing microplastics from complex soil samples, noting that no single technique works well for all particle types, and proposed a step-by-step approach combining density separation, chemical purification, and photocatalytic degradation to better detect and eliminate soil microplastics.
The trend of bioremediation as an effective technology in soil decontamination
Not relevant to microplastics — this review covers bioremediation techniques using bacteria, fungi, and plants to clean up soil contaminated with hydrocarbons, pesticides, and heavy metals.
Bioremediation of Microplastic Wastes in Soil
This chapter reviews bioremediation strategies for removing microplastics from soil, focusing on microbial and biological approaches to degrading plastic particles smaller than 5 mm. The authors discuss mechanisms of microbial plastic degradation and the promise of bioremediation as a sustainable soil remediation tool.
Magnetic separation and degradation approaches for effective microplastic removal from aquatic and terrestrial environments
This review covers methods for removing microplastics from water and soil environments using magnetic separation and degradation technologies. Researchers describe how microplastics can be captured using magnetic particles and then broken down through biodegradation, advanced oxidation, or electrochemical processes. The study highlights these combined approaches as promising strategies for addressing microplastic pollution across both aquatic and land-based ecosystems.
The Effect of Microplastic Pollution on Soil, Plants and Soil Microbes and Its Remediation
This review summarized evidence for microplastic effects on soil properties, plant growth, soil microbes, and food safety, identifying microplastic pollution as a significant emerging threat to terrestrial ecosystems. The authors also reviewed bioremediation and physical removal strategies as potential remediation approaches.
Novel Remediation Pathways for Mitigating Microplastic Pollution
This book chapter investigates novel remediation strategies for removing microplastics from diverse ecosystems, examining advanced physical filtration and membrane technologies, microbial degradation via specialized organisms, and advanced oxidation processes (AOPs) that generate reactive oxygen species. The authors conclude that combining physical, biological, and chemical approaches offers the most comprehensive toolkit for large-scale microplastic mitigation.
Potential strategies for bioremediation of microplastic contaminated soil
Researchers reviewed emerging bioremediation strategies for removing microplastics from contaminated soil, highlighting the roles of plants, root-zone microbes, soil animals like earthworms, and specialized bacteria and fungi that can use enzymes to break down plastic polymers into harmless compounds. While genetic engineering of microbes shows promise for accelerating degradation, the review notes that real-world application at scale still requires significant research and development.
Preface
This is the preface to an ACS Symposium Series volume on bioremediation of microplastics from soil, providing editorial context for the compiled research chapters. The volume focuses on biological approaches to removing plastic particles from terrestrial environments.
Remediation Strategies for Soil and Water
This book chapter reviewed remediation techniques for contaminated soil and water, covering adsorption, membrane separation, advanced oxidation, ion exchange, electrochemical treatment, microbial degradation, and phytoremediation. The authors addressed effectiveness for heavy metals, PAHs, antibiotics, and microplastics across these platforms.
Microplastics in soils: A comparative review on extraction, identification and quantification methods
This review compares the various methods scientists use to extract, identify, and measure microplastics in soil, highlighting the strengths and weaknesses of each approach. Soil is a particularly challenging material to work with because its organic matter and complex structure can interfere with accurate microplastic detection. The authors recommend combining multiple techniques and minimizing harsh chemical steps that could accidentally destroy the very plastic particles being measured.