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Review of emerging contaminants sources, effects, and removal methods

This review categorizes emerging contaminants including microplastics, personal care products, pesticides, and pharmaceuticals, summarizing sources, environmental occurrence, and available treatment technologies for their removal from water.

2024 Applied and Computational Engineering 1 citations
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Ozonation and its Application in Wastewater Treatment

Not relevant to microplastics — this review covers ozonation and catalytic ozonation as wastewater disinfection and organic pollutant degradation technologies, with no focus on microplastic contamination.

2023 International Journal For Multidisciplinary Research 1 citations
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Emerging organic pollutants in aqueousenvironments: Detection, monitoring, andremoval techniques

This review covers detection, monitoring, and removal techniques for emerging organic pollutants in aquatic environments, including microplastics, surveying analytical advances and treatment technologies developed over recent decades.

2021 Journal of Science with Technological Applications 18 citations
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New Aspects of Occurrence and Removal of Emerging Pollutants

This review introduced new perspectives on emerging pollutants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and PFAS, examining their occurrence in water, soil, and air and reviewing both conventional and advanced removal technologies, concluding that integrated treatment approaches are needed to address the complexity of multi-pollutant contamination.

2021 Water 19 citations
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Occurrence of Emerging Contaminants in the Environment Causes and Effects

This review defines and categorizes contaminants of emerging concern including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and pesticides, summarizing their sources, environmental occurrence, and potential treatment strategies.

2024 1 citations
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Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?

This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.

2021 Figshare
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Which\nMicropollutants in Water Environments Deserve\nMore Attention Globally?

This review analyzed which organic micropollutants in water environments deserve the most global attention based on their toxicity, occurrence frequency, and persistence. Microplastics are among the contaminants considered, alongside pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and industrial chemicals that routinely escape conventional water treatment and accumulate in aquatic ecosystems.

2021 Figshare
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Emerging Environmental Contaminats of High Concern: Trends, Potential Sources, Friendly Treatment Technologies and Future Prospects

This review examines sources, environmental behavior, and health effects of emerging environmental contaminants -- including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals -- along with promising treatment technologies for their removal from water and soil.

2024 Preprints.org
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Environmental Contaminants of Emerging Concern: Occurrence and Remediation

This review covers contaminants of emerging concern, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and personal care products, examining their occurrence in the environment and available remediation strategies. Researchers found that these pollutants are widespread but inconsistently regulated, and the study highlights the need for standardized monitoring and effective treatment technologies.

2023 Chemia, Dydaktyka, Ekologia, Metrologia 6 citations
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Research progress and application exploration of techniques to remove emerging contaminants from water environment

This review summarizes technologies for removing emerging contaminants — including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and pesticides — from water, covering adsorption, membrane filtration, advanced oxidation, and biological methods. The authors assess the effectiveness and limitations of each approach for real-world water treatment.

2023 E3S Web of Conferences 2 citations
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Research and Application of Water Treatment Technologies for Emerging Contaminants (ECs): A Pathway to Solving Water Environment Challenges

This review summarizes methods for removing emerging contaminants from water, including microplastics, drug residues, and hormone-disrupting chemicals. It covers physical, chemical, and biological treatment approaches, noting their strengths and limitations -- important because even at low concentrations, these pollutants build up over time and pose long-term threats to human health.

2024 Water 27 citations
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Emerging Contaminants in Water: Detection, Treatment, and Regulation

This review covers emerging contaminants in water — including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals — discussing detection methods, treatment technologies, and regulatory frameworks. The authors highlight major gaps in current water quality standards and the need for updated regulations to address these newer pollutants.

2021 Water 7 citations
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Emerging Pollutants in Aquatic Environment: Critical Risk Assessment and Treatment Options

This review provided a critical risk assessment and treatment approaches for emerging pollutants in aquatic environments, including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and personal care products, evaluating removal efficiency across treatment technologies.

2024 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks
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Microplastics Degradation in Water: A Review of Advanced Oxidative Processes and Ozonation for Effective Treatment

This review examines advanced oxidative processes (AOPs) and ozonation as emerging technologies for degrading microplastics in drinking water and aquatic environments, covering both identification and quantification methods alongside treatment efficacy. The authors assess the challenges and capabilities of these approaches in addressing the growing concern over microplastic contamination in water supplies.

2025 Asian Journal of Chemistry
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Effects of microplastics on the removal of trace organic compounds during ozonation: Oxidation and adsorption of trace organic compounds and byproducts

Microplastics were found to interfere with the ozonation of trace organic compounds in water treatment, with plastic surfaces adsorbing both target pollutants and ozonation byproducts, potentially reducing treatment effectiveness and creating new exposure pathways.

2021 Environmental Pollution 22 citations
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Occurrence, fate and transformation of emerging contaminants in water: An overarching review of the field

This overview reviewed the occurrence, fate, and transformation of emerging contaminants — including microplastics and chemical pollutants — in water, summarizing what is known about their behavior from entry to breakdown in aquatic systems.

2017 Environmental Pollution 723 citations
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A Brief Review of Treatment Methods for Certain Emerging Contaminants in Domestic and Industrial Effluents

This review summarizes emerging contaminant treatment methods for domestic and industrial effluents, covering advanced oxidation, membrane filtration, adsorption, and biological approaches for removing pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and other persistent pollutants.

2024 1 citations
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Microplastic Pollution Focused on Sources, Distribution, Contaminant Interactions, Analytical Methods, and Wastewater Removal Strategies: A Review

This review examines microplastic pollution across all environmental compartments, covering sources, distribution, contaminant interactions, analytical methods, and wastewater removal strategies. Microplastics act as vectors for pesticides, pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, PCBs, and PAHs, and the review discusses both the analytical challenges of detection and available treatment options.

2022 International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health 74 citations
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Occurrence, fate, and toxicity of emerging contaminants in a diverse ecosystem

This review examined the occurrence, fate, and toxicity of emerging contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors across diverse ecosystems, tracing their pathways from wastewater treatment systems into natural environments.

2021 Physical Sciences Reviews 7 citations
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Systematic Review of Contaminants of Emerging Concern (CECs): Distribution, Risks, and Implications for Water Quality and Health

This systematic review summarizes research on contaminants of emerging concern, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and industrial chemicals found in water sources. The findings highlight that these pollutants pose real risks to both ecosystems and human health, and that current water treatment methods may not fully remove them.

2023 Water 67 citations
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Reactivity of four model microplastics with ozone.

Researchers investigated the reactivity of four model microplastic types with ozone, examining how ozone treatment affects the physicochemical properties of microplastics as a potential water treatment strategy for degrading plastic particles.

2025 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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Ozone-mediated breakdown of microplastics in aqueous environments

Researchers examined how ozone-based advanced oxidation processes break down microplastics in water treatment settings. They found that while ozone can degrade certain plastics, the effectiveness varies depending on particle size, polymer type, and treatment conditions, and the process may generate nanoplastic byproducts. The study highlights both the promise and limitations of ozone treatment as a strategy for removing microplastics from wastewater.

2025 Journal of Analytical Atomic Spectrometry 2 citations
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Removal of Microplastic Contaminants from Aquatic Environment

This review examines technologies for removing microplastics from aquatic environments, covering physical, chemical, and biological treatment methods and their relative effectiveness. Identifying and improving removal strategies is urgent because microplastics are now found throughout drinking water sources, oceans, and freshwater systems, posing risks to wildlife and human health.

2023 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks 2 citations
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Degradation and ecotoxicity of favipiravir and oseltamivir in the presence of microplastics during ozonation and catalytic ozonation of synthetic municipal wastewater effluents

Researchers tested whether ozone-based water treatment could effectively remove antiviral drugs from wastewater, both with and without microplastics present. They found that ozonation removed up to 84% of favipiravir and 64% of oseltamivir, but the presence of microplastics reduced degradation rates by 30-40%. The study suggests that microplastics in wastewater may interfere with advanced treatment processes, making it harder to fully eliminate pharmaceutical contaminants.

2025 Journal of Chemical Technology & Biotechnology 4 citations