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ClearExploring the potential of microalgae in removal of microplastics from the environment and scope of this entity as feedstock for biofuel production
This review explores the potential of microalgae to capture and remove microplastics from aquatic environments, examining the mechanisms by which algal cells adsorb or aggregate plastic particles and discussing the feasibility of algae-based remediation at scale.
Removal of microplastics with microalgae and biofuel production
This review examines the potential of microalgae to simultaneously remove microplastics from water while serving as a feedstock for biofuel production, evaluating both the biosorption mechanisms involved and the downstream feasibility of converting biomass to energy.
Microplastics reduce microalgal biomass by decreasing single-cell weight: The barrier towards implementation at scale
Researchers found that microplastics significantly reduce biomass production in three industrially relevant microalgae species by decreasing single-cell weight by up to 47%, posing a serious barrier to scaling microalgal industries in contaminated waters.
Potential for Using Algae to Reduce Microplastics in the Environment
This review examined the potential of algae to reduce microplastic pollution both by adsorbing and intercepting plastic particles in water and by serving as a feedstock for biosynthesizing biodegradable bioplastics as alternatives to petroleum-based materials.
Removals of Some High- and Low-Density Polyethylene (HDPE and LDPE), Polypropylene (PP) and Polyvinyl Chloride (PVC) Microplastics Using Some Microalgae Types, Energy Production and Energy Recovery
This review examines how microalgae can remove microplastics from wastewater alongside producing biofuels, combining pollution remediation with energy generation. Microalgal systems could offer a dual-benefit approach to reducing plastic contamination in water treatment effluents.
Interplay of plastic pollution with algae and plants: hidden danger or a blessing?
Researchers tested the ability of three microalgae species to remove microplastics from water through bioadhesion, finding that all three species could adsorb particles onto their surfaces. Removal efficiency depended on particle size, surface charge, and algae cell morphology.
Removal of Microplastics from Industrial Wastewater Using Microalgae
This review examines the use of microalgae as a sustainable biological approach for removing microplastics from wastewater, covering mechanisms of MP attachment to algal surfaces, factors affecting removal efficiency, and prospects for integrating algae cultivation with wastewater treatment.
Present and Future Prospect of Algae: A Potential Candidate for Sustainable Pollution Mitigation
This review examines the potential of algae as a sustainable tool for pollution mitigation across multiple environmental matrices, including their role in reducing plastic and microplastic contamination.
Recent Advances in Micro-/Nanoplastic (MNPs) Removal by Microalgae and Possible Integrated Routes of Energy Recovery
This review examined the interactions between micro- and nanoplastics and microalgae, covering how microalgae are affected by plastic particles and how they can in turn be used to remove plastics from aquatic environments. The authors identify microalgae-based systems as promising tools for combined plastic removal and biomass production.
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.
Applications of the Microalgae Chlamydomonas and Its Bacterial Consortia in Detoxification and Bioproduction
This review explores how the microalga Chlamydomonas and its bacterial partners can be used for wastewater cleanup, biofertilizer production, and generating useful biological products. While not directly about microplastics, these algae-bacteria systems show promise for treating contaminated water that contains microplastics along with other pollutants. The research highlights biological approaches that could help reduce microplastic pollution in water systems.
Harnessing microalgae for microplastic removal and biofuel production
This book chapter reviews how microalgae can simultaneously address microplastic removal from aquatic environments and serve as feedstock for biofuel production, presenting the dual-benefit approach as a promising strategy for sustainable environmental remediation.
Bacterial cellulose biopolymers: The sustainable solution to water-polluting microplastics
Researchers developed bacterial cellulose (BC) biopolymer filters as a sustainable alternative to petroleum-based polymer filters used in wastewater treatment plant microplastic removal. BC filters showed high MP capture efficiency and are biodegradable, addressing both microplastic pollution and the environmental costs of conventional synthetic filter maintenance.
The effect of microplastics pollution in microalgal biomass production: A biochemical study
Scientists exposed the marine microalga Phaeodactylum tricornutum to polystyrene microplastics and found that both short- and long-term exposure at environmentally relevant concentrations disrupted biochemical composition including proteins, carbohydrates, and lipids.
Evaluating physiological responses of microalgae towards environmentally coexisting microplastics: A meta-analysis
A meta-analysis of 52 studies found that microplastics inhibit microalgal growth and photosynthesis and induce oxidative damage, though microalgae can recover over time. Cyanobacteria are more vulnerable than green algae, and the relative size of microplastics to algal cells governs the mechanism of impact, while aged versus pristine microplastics have opposite effects on extracellular polymeric substance and microcystin production.
Effects of microplastics on microalgae populations: A critical review
This critical review examines how microplastics affect microalgae populations, which are essential primary producers at the base of aquatic food webs. Researchers found that microplastics can reduce algal growth, impair photosynthesis, and cause oxidative stress, with effects varying by plastic type, size, and concentration. The study highlights that harm to microalgae from plastic pollution could have cascading effects throughout entire aquatic ecosystems.
Microalgae–microplastics interactions at environmentally relevant concentrations: Implications toward ecology, bioeconomy, and UN SDGs
This study investigated how microalgae interact with microplastics at environmentally relevant concentrations, examining growth inhibition, aggregation, and photosynthetic effects, with implications for aquatic ecosystem function and the feasibility of microalgae-based bioremediation.
A critical review on remediation of microplastics using microalgae from aqueous system
This review explores using microalgae -- tiny photosynthetic organisms -- as a natural way to remove microplastics from water. Microalgae can capture and clump microplastic particles together, making them easier to filter out. Since microplastics in water systems are a growing concern for human health through drinking water and seafood, biological removal methods like this could offer a more sustainable cleanup approach.
Bioplastic Production from Microalgae and their Applications- A Critical Review
This review critically examines bioplastic production from microalgae, evaluating algal strains, cultivation conditions, and extraction methods, while noting that multiple health risks associated with conventional microplastics have increased the urgency of developing algae-based alternatives.
The microplastic menace: a critical review of its impact on marine photoautotrophs and their environment
This review examines how microplastics interact with marine macro- and microalgae, covering environmental prevalence, genetic responses to MP exposure, and mitigation strategies. It finds that annual introduction of 28.5 million tons of plastic into oceans threatens marine primary producers and indirectly affects marine food webs and human health through the consumption of contaminated seafood.
Microalgae as a Source of Biopolymer - A Comprehensive Review
This review examines microalgae as a source of biopolymers for sustainable plastic alternatives, evaluating the potential of algae-derived materials to address the environmental and health harms caused by conventional plastic waste and microplastic pollution through biodegradable substitutes.
Micro/nano-plastics and microalgae in aquatic environment: Influence factor, interaction, and molecular mechanisms.
This review examined the interactions between micro/nanoplastics and microalgae in aquatic environments, summarizing how plastic particle size, surface chemistry, and co-pollutants influence algal toxicity through oxidative stress, photosynthesis inhibition, and gene expression changes.
Exploring the Potential of Algae in the Mitigation of Plastic Pollution in Aquatic Environments
This review examined how algae can help mitigate plastic pollution in aquatic environments, finding that certain algal species can adsorb, degrade, or entrap microplastics, suggesting potential bioremediation applications though large-scale effectiveness remains to be demonstrated.
Eradicating microplastics in wastewater: microalgae as a sustainable strategy
This review examines the use of microalgae as a sustainable strategy for removing microplastics from wastewater, discussing biosorption mechanisms, removal efficiencies, and the limitations of conventional treatment plants that typically achieve only up to 90% MP removal.