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ClearMarine Bacteria for Bioremediation of Polluted Marine Environments: A Blue Revolution Approach
This review explored how marine bacteria can be harnessed to bioremediate polluted ocean environments contaminated with hydrocarbons, heavy metals, and microplastics. The authors found that marine bacteria offer cost-effective and ecologically compatible remediation potential but that practical deployment at scale remains a major challenge.
The Role Of Bacteria In Microplastic Bioremediation And Implications For Marine Ecosystems
This literature review summarizes how bacteria can be harnessed through bioremediation to break down microplastics in marine environments, cataloging the bacterial species and mechanisms involved. While biological degradation is slow and not yet a practical cleanup solution at scale, identifying effective bacteria is an important step toward developing tools to reduce the long-term accumulation of microplastics in ocean ecosystems.
Microbes as Biocatalysts of Marine Micropollutants
This review examines how marine microorganisms can serve as biocatalysts to break down micropollutants including industrial chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and microplastics in ocean environments. The study highlights advances in synthetic biology and genomics that are improving microbial efficiency for targeted bioremediation, while noting the need for cooperation among scientists, policymakers, and industry to address implementation challenges.
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.
Enterococcus Present in Marine Ecosystems and Their Potential to Degrade Azo Dyes
Researchers studied Enterococcus bacteria from marine environments and their ability to break down industrial azo dyes, which are common water pollutants. While not directly about microplastics, this research explores how marine bacteria can help remediate chemical pollution in coastal ecosystems.
Prospecting Microbial Strains for Bioremediation and Probiotics Development for Metaorganism Research and Preservation
This review examines bioremediation approaches for cleaning up marine pollution, particularly in coral reef ecosystems. Some microbes that degrade plastic or associated chemicals could be selected as probiotics for coral restoration, though much research remains before field application.
Microplastics in the Marine Environment: Sources, Fates, Impacts and Microbial Degradation
This review provides a comprehensive overview of microplastic pollution in marine environments, covering their sources, distribution, and impacts on ocean life. Researchers found that microplastics are ingested by marine organisms at all levels of the food chain, potentially affecting both wildlife health and human food safety. The study also explores the promising role of marine bacteria that can break down certain plastics as a potential solution to this pollution crisis.
Biotechnological Potentials of Microbe Assisted Eco-Recovery of Crude Oil Impacted Environment
This review examines how bacteria can be used to bioremediate soil and water contaminated with crude oil. Microbe-based cleanup approaches are also relevant to microplastic degradation, as some bacteria have been found to break down certain types of plastic.
Advancing Eco-Sustainable Bioremediation for Hydrocarbon Contaminants: Challenges and Solutions
This review covers eco-friendly methods for cleaning up hydrocarbon pollution in soil and water using bacteria, fungi, and microalgae. While focused on petroleum contaminants rather than microplastics, the bioremediation approaches discussed are relevant because microplastics can absorb and carry hydrocarbons, and cleaning up one pollutant can help address both. Understanding biological cleanup methods is important for reducing the overall toxic burden in environments where people live and grow food.
The threat of microplastics and microbial degradation potential; a current perspective
This review covers the growing threat of microplastics in marine environments, where they enter the food chain and can transfer to humans along with pathogenic organisms, causing various toxic effects. The paper also explores how bacteria and fungi found in ocean environments could be harnessed to biodegrade different types of plastics as a future strategy for reducing microplastic pollution.
Utilizing Marine Biotechnology to Address Pollution in the Bay of Bengal, Bangladesh
This review examines how marine biotechnology — including biodegrading microbes and genetically engineered organisms — could be applied to address plastic waste, oil spills, and chemical pollutants in Bangladesh's Bay of Bengal coastal waters. Biological approaches to marine plastic remediation could complement physical cleanup methods in highly polluted coastal ecosystems.
Synthetic bacteria for the detection and bioremediation of heavy metals
This review covers how scientists are engineering bacteria to detect and clean up heavy metal contamination in the environment. Synthetic biology tools allow researchers to create microbes that can sense specific metals and either absorb or transform them into less toxic forms. While focused on heavy metals, this bioremediation approach is relevant to microplastics research because microplastics often concentrate heavy metals, and cleaning up one pollutant could help address both.
Potensi Mikroorganisme Sebagai Agen Bioremediasi Mikroplastik Di Laut
This Indonesian review examines microorganisms with the potential to biodegrade microplastics in marine environments, including bacteria that can use plastic as a carbon source. Identifying plastic-degrading microbes is a step toward developing biological remediation strategies for marine microplastic pollution.
Biodegradation of Plastics Induced by Marine Organisms: Future Perspectives for Bioremediation Approaches
This review explores how marine organisms, including bacteria and fungi, can biodegrade plastic pollution in ocean environments. Researchers surveyed the current evidence on biofouling and enzymatic breakdown of different plastic types by marine life. The study suggests that harnessing these natural biodegradation processes could offer a promising bioremediation approach, though significant research gaps remain before practical applications are feasible.
The role of marine bacteria in modulating the environmental impact of heavy metals, microplastics, and pesticides: a comprehensive review
This comprehensive review covers how marine bacteria mitigate environmental impacts of heavy metals, microplastics, and pesticides through processes including biosorption, biotransformation, biofilm colonization of microplastics, and enzymatic pesticide degradation.
Marine bacteria capable of enzymatic degrading of low- and high-density polyethylene: Toward sustainable mitigation of marine microplastic pollution
Scientists discovered ocean bacteria that can break down common plastic types found in marine pollution, with some bacteria destroying up to 17% of the plastic in lab tests. These naturally occurring bacteria could potentially be used to help clean up the tiny plastic particles that contaminate our oceans and eventually enter our food chain through seafood. While still in early research stages, this finding offers hope for a biological solution to reduce the microplastics that may pose health risks when we consume contaminated fish and shellfish.
Benefits of Immobilized Bacteria in Bioremediation of Sites Contaminated with Toxic Organic Compounds
This review covers how immobilizing bacteria on support materials makes them more effective at cleaning up environments contaminated with toxic organic compounds. While focused on bioremediation rather than microplastics specifically, the techniques described could be applied to breaking down plastic pollutants in contaminated soil and water.
Microalgae-based bioremediation of refractory pollutants: an approach towards environmental sustainability
This review examines how microalgae can be used to clean up hard-to-remove pollutants, including microplastics, from contaminated environments. The authors highlight that microalgae-based bioremediation is a sustainable, eco-friendly approach that could help address the growing problem of microplastic pollution in waterways.
Bioprospecting of Marine Bacteria for their Diversity and Biotechnological Application
This review examines the diversity and biotechnological potential of marine bacteria, covering their unique metabolic pathways adapted to extreme conditions, and discusses applications in enzyme discovery, bioactive compound isolation, bioremediation, and healthcare supported by advances in omics technologies and genetic engineering.
Microplastics on the frontline: causes, strategies to combat pollution and protect health with advanced bioremediation—a review
This systematic review examines how microplastics carry toxic chemicals like heavy metals and persistent pollutants into the food chain, ultimately reaching humans. It also explores promising bioremediation approaches — using bacteria and enzymes to break down microplastics — as a potential strategy to reduce exposure.