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Remediation of Emerging Pollutants by Using Advanced Biological Wastewater Treatments

This review examines advanced biological methods for removing emerging pollutants from wastewater, including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, and microplastics. Biological treatment approaches offer sustainable and effective alternatives to conventional treatment for this increasingly complex mix of contaminants.

2021 Applied Water Science 4 citations
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Microbial degradation of contaminants of emerging concern: metabolic, genetic and omics insights for enhanced bioremediation

This review covers how microorganisms have evolved the ability to break down emerging pollutants including plasticizers, pharmaceuticals, and pesticides, turning them into less harmful substances. Understanding the genes, enzymes, and metabolic pathways these microbes use could lead to cost-effective, eco-friendly cleanup methods for removing persistent contaminants -- including plastic-derived chemicals -- from the environment before they reach people.

2024 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 27 citations
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Editorial: Microbial Ecotoxicology Advances to Improve Environmental and Human Health Under Global Change

This editorial introduces a special journal issue on microbial ecotoxicology, highlighting how microorganisms are affected by environmental contaminants including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and other emerging pollutants. Understanding microbial responses to pollution is critical for assessing broader ecosystem and human health risks.

2022 Frontiers in Microbiology 4 citations
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Microbial and multi-omics approaches for bioremediation of emerging contaminants: environmental impact and future engineering solutions

This research review summarizes how scientists are using helpful microbes (bacteria, fungi, and algae) to clean up dangerous pollutants in our water and soil, including pharmaceuticals, pesticides, and microplastics that can harm human health. The study shows that these tiny organisms can naturally break down and remove many toxic chemicals from the environment. This matters because it could lead to cheaper, eco-friendly ways to clean up contaminated areas and protect our drinking water and food supply.

2026 Biodegradation
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Editorial: Microbial response to emerging contaminants in soil and sediment ecosystems

This editorial introduces a research collection on microbial responses to emerging contaminants — including microplastics, antibiotics, and heavy metals — in soil and sediment ecosystems. Researchers highlight the importance of understanding how these contaminants interact to alter microbial community diversity, function, and ecological balance in terrestrial and aquatic environments.

2024 Frontiers in Microbiology 1 citations
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Editorial: Environmental remediation strategies of new and emerging chemical contaminants

This editorial introduces a special issue on remediation strategies for emerging chemical contaminants, including microplastics, antibiotics, and specialty chemicals. These persistent pollutants accumulate in soil and water and require advanced clean-up approaches as their environmental presence grows.

2024 Frontiers in Environmental Chemistry 2 citations
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Critical assessment of advanced oxidation processes and bio-electrochemical integrated systems for removing emerging contaminants from wastewater

This review assesses advanced oxidation processes and bioelectrochemical systems for removing emerging contaminants such as personal care products, antibiotics, and endocrine-disrupting chemicals from wastewater. The study evaluates integrated treatment approaches for addressing these difficult-to-remove pollutants.

2023 RSC Sustainability 73 citations
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Editorial: Microbial regulatory mechanisms in remediation of industrial wastewater and contaminated soils

This editorial reviews recent advances in microbial bioremediation of industrial wastewater and contaminated soils, summarizing studies on fungal heavy metal adsorption, phosphate-solubilizing bacteria for metal stabilization, and other microbial regulatory mechanisms applied to emerging contaminants including microplastics.

2025 Frontiers in Microbiology
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Editorial: Xenobiotics and emerging contaminants in ecosystems: innovative geo-microbial strategies for prevention, efficient clean-up and biosafety

This editorial introduces a special journal section on xenobiotics and emerging contaminants in ecosystems, summarizing innovative geochemical and monitoring approaches for tracking organic pollutants, heavy metals, and microplastics across terrestrial and aquatic environments.

2025 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 3 citations
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Recent trends in bioremediation and bioaugmentation strategies for mitigation of marine based pollutants: current perspectives and future outlook

This review evaluates recent advances in bioremediation and bioaugmentation strategies for addressing marine pollution from microplastics, hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and pesticides. Researchers highlight progress in developing tailored microbial consortia, genetically engineered degradation agents, and nano-enabled remediation approaches informed by omics tools. The study notes that while significant advances have been made, scaling these biological approaches to handle complex pollutant mixtures in real ocean conditions remains a major challenge.

2024 Discover Sustainability 18 citations
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Emerging Contaminants in waste Water: Detection, and Treatment Innovations

This review covers emerging contaminants in wastewater—including pharmaceuticals, endocrine disruptors, microplastics, and antibiotic resistance genes—examining their sources, detection methods using advanced analytical tools, and cutting-edge treatment innovations.

2025 Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)
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A critical review on advanced molecular tools for bioremediation

This critical review examined advanced molecular tools being developed for bioremediation of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, pesticides, heavy metals, and volatile organic compounds. The study highlights how emerging genomic, proteomic, and metabolomic techniques are improving the effectiveness of biological approaches to breaking down persistent contaminants in the environment.

2026 Frontiers in Environmental Science
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Chemical behaviour and environmental fate of emerging contaminants: Persistence, transformation, and advanced remediation approaches

This review examines the chemical behavior and environmental fate of emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, PFAS, microplastics, and engineered nanomaterials. The study highlights that these substances persist in environmental systems at trace concentrations yet can cause significant toxicological effects including endocrine disruption and immunotoxicity, and discusses advanced remediation approaches for addressing these pollutants.

2026 Journal of Research in Chemistry
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Editorial: New threats, new solutions: tackling emerging contaminants

This editorial examines emerging contaminants including microplastics and hydrocarbons as complex environmental threats arising from human activity, framing the challenge of new pollutants requiring new detection and remediation solutions.

2024 Environmental Geotechnics 1 citations
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Molecular Advances in Microbial Metabolism

This editorial introduces a special journal issue on molecular advances in microbial metabolism, covering research on plastic degradation, heavy metal remediation, and responses to climate change. Microbial metabolism research is key to developing biological solutions for plastic pollution, including breaking down the microplastics accumulating in ocean sediments.

2023 International Journal of Molecular Sciences
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Coupled Mechanistic Insight of Bioremediation of Emerging Contaminants in Soil Biogeochemical Cycles

This review examines how emerging contaminants including antibiotics, PFAS, flame retardants, pesticides, and micro- to nanoplastics interact with soil biogeochemical cycles and explores bioremediation strategies to address them. Researchers found that these pollutants can significantly reduce soil microbial diversity and enzymatic activity at environmentally relevant concentrations. The study highlights coupled bioremediation approaches that leverage natural soil processes to break down or immobilize these contaminants.

2025 Land Degradation and Development 1 citations
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Recent Developments in Emerging Contaminants Determination and Treatment Technologies

This review covers recent advances in detecting and treating emerging contaminants in water, including microplastics, pharmaceuticals, and endocrine disruptors, summarizing the most promising analytical and treatment technologies.

2022 Separations 6 citations
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Emerging contaminants in municipal sewage/sludge: occurrence, risk assessment, and treatment technologies

This review documents the occurrence of emerging contaminants — including pharmaceuticals, microplastics, and endocrine disruptors — in municipal sewage and sludge, assessing their environmental risks and current removal efficiencies. The authors highlight that many contaminants persist through conventional treatment, entering soils via biosolid application and waterways via effluent discharge.

2024 IWA Publishing eBooks
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Environmental and Health Effects of Emerging Contaminants –A Critical Review

Researchers reviewed the environmental and health effects of emerging contaminants including pharmaceuticals, personal care products, and microplastics commonly found in water and soil samples. The study suggests that these contaminants can cause endocrine disruption in exposed organisms and may contribute to the spread of antibiotic-resistant bacteria in the environment.

2023 International Journal of Advanced Science and Engineering 9 citations
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Construction of microbial consortia for microbial degradation of complex compounds

This review explores how engineered microbial consortia can degrade complex environmental pollutants more effectively than isolated bacteria, discussing strategies for constructing stable multi-species communities for bioremediation applications.

2022 Frontiers in Bioengineering and Biotechnology 180 citations
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Unlocking secrets of microbial ecotoxicology: recent achievements and future challenges

This review explores how microorganisms interact with environmental pollutants, including microplastics, covering how bacteria can break down pollutants but are also harmed by them. The authors highlight that microplastics create new surfaces in the environment where bacteria form communities, potentially spreading harmful species or antibiotic resistance. Understanding these microbial interactions is critical for developing nature-based solutions to reduce pollution and protect human health.

2023 FEMS Microbiology Ecology 30 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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Recent Application of Enzymes and Microbes in Bioremediation

This review covers recent advances in applying enzymes and microorganisms for bioremediation of environmental pollutants, including microplastics, with a focus on eco-friendly alternatives to conventional chemical or physical treatment methods. The authors highlight promising microbial and enzymatic strategies that reduce secondary pollution and offer cost-effective pathways for cleaning contaminated soil and water.

2024 African Journal of Biochemistry and Molecular Biology Research
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Multi-omics approaches for remediation of bisphenol A: Toxicity, risk analysis, road blocks and research perspectives

This review used multi-omics approaches to assess the toxicity of bisphenol A and its pathways for environmental remediation, integrating genomics, transcriptomics, and metabolomics data. The authors identified microbial and biochemical strategies with potential for BPA removal from contaminated environments while clarifying risk to human and ecosystem health.

2022 Environmental Research 17 citations