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ClearA comprehensive review on green materials as adsorbents for the remediation of heavy metals, dyes, antibiotics, pesticides, and microplastics from water and wastewater: an overview
This review evaluates the use of green materials, nanoparticles, biochar, and other bio-based sorbents for removing heavy metals, dyes, antibiotics, and microplastics from industrial wastewater. Researchers found that these eco-friendly materials offer enhanced adsorption efficiency compared to conventional treatment methods like filtration and ion exchange. The study highlights the potential of integrating bioremediation with artificial intelligence and machine learning for more sustainable wastewater treatment.
Application of microalgae in wastewater treatment with special reference to emerging contaminants: a step towards sustainability
This review highlights how various microalgae species can help remove emerging contaminants from wastewater, including microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and harmful chemicals. The organisms use mechanisms like biosorption, bioaccumulation, and biodegradation to break down or capture these pollutants. The authors connect these microalgae-based treatment technologies to broader sustainability goals, while noting that scaling from lab to industrial applications remains a challenge.
Bioremediation for Environmental Pollutants
This book chapter reviews bioremediation techniques for removing hazardous chemicals from contaminated soil and water, covering heavy metals, dyes, and other industrial pollutants. Bioremediation approaches including microbial and plant-based methods are also being explored for removing microplastics from contaminated environments.
Green solutions for clean water: Natural materials in contaminant detection and removal
This review examines green and natural materials — including biosorbents, biopolymers, plant-based composites, and naturally occurring minerals — as sustainable alternatives to conventional water treatment technologies for detecting and removing emerging contaminants, evaluating biodegradability, cost-effectiveness, and performance against limitations of high cost and secondary pollution in traditional approaches.
The Role of Bioremediation in Achieving Environmental Sustainability
This review discusses the role of bioremediation in environmental sustainability, examining how biological agents including bacteria, fungi, and plants can be used to address soil and water contamination from heavy metals, microplastics, and other persistent pollutants.
Water Contamination by Heavy Metals and their Toxic Effect
This review examines heavy metal contamination of water sources and its toxic health effects on humans and animals, including liver and kidney damage, skin disease, and cancer, and evaluates biosorption using plant biomass, algae, agricultural waste, and microorganisms as an environmentally friendly and cost-effective removal strategy. The authors provide foundational knowledge on heavy metal pollution research and sustainable remediation approaches.
The Role of Biocomposites and Nanocomposites in Eliminating Organic Contaminants from Effluents
Not relevant to microplastics — this review evaluates biocomposite and nanocomposite sorbents for removing heavy metals, dyes, and hydrocarbons from industrial wastewater, comparing adsorption mechanisms and recyclability.
Mechanism of Microbial Detoxification of Heavy Metals: A Review
This review examined the mechanisms by which microorganisms detoxify heavy metals in contaminated environments, covering processes including metal precipitation, redox transformation, biosorption, and efflux pumping. The authors identified bacteria and fungi with strong metal detoxification capabilities as candidates for bioremediation of heavy metal-contaminated soils and waters.
Microalgae in Mitigating Industrial Pollution: Bioremediation Strategies and Biomagnification Potential
This review evaluates how microalgae can be used to clean up environmental pollution including microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and persistent organic pollutants through natural processes like biosorption and biodegradation. Researchers found that different microalgae species can effectively break down or accumulate a wide range of contaminants, though biomagnification through the food chain remains a concern. The study highlights microalgae as a promising sustainable tool for environmental remediation with dual benefits of pollution removal and production of valuable biomolecules.
Ecofriendly sustainable synthetized nano-composite for removal of heavy metals from aquatic environment
An eco-friendly nano-composite was synthesized and tested for removing heavy metals from aquatic environments, achieving high removal efficiencies for multiple metals through adsorption. The material was developed using sustainable synthesis methods and biomass-derived components, offering a greener alternative to conventional adsorbents for water treatment.
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.
Bioremediation Techniques for Water and Soil Pollution: Review
This review covers bioremediation techniques that use microorganisms to break down pollutants in water and soil, including microplastics, heavy metals, and pharmaceutical residues. Researchers highlight how bacteria, fungi, and algae can be harnessed to degrade plastic waste and other contaminants through natural biological processes. The study suggests that bioremediation offers a promising, environmentally friendly approach to tackling pollution, though more research is needed to optimize these techniques for real-world application.
Algae Based Solutions for Polluted Environments to Restore Ecosphere Equilibrium
This review examined algae-based bioremediation solutions for polluted environments, finding that algae's diverse metabolic capabilities make them effective at removing pollutants including heavy metals, organic compounds, and microplastics from contaminated water and soil.
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.
Microbial Innovations for Sustainable Wastewater Management: A Comprehensive Review of Azo Dye Bioremediation
Researchers reviewed microbial strategies for degrading azo dyes in industrial wastewater, examining the enzymatic mechanisms of bacteria, fungi, algae, and consortia, and highlighting that reductive cleavage of azo bonds can generate toxic aromatic amines, underscoring the need for complete mineralization pathways rather than decolorization alone.
Microplastics with adsorbed contaminants: Mechanisms and Treatment
This review examines how microplastics adsorb environmental contaminants including heavy metals, organic pollutants, and pathogens, and surveys treatment methods for removing contaminated microplastics from water. Researchers found that microplastics can act as vectors for hazardous substances, potentially increasing their bioavailability and toxicity in aquatic ecosystems. The study evaluates emerging remediation technologies and highlights the complex environmental risks posed by microplastics carrying adsorbed pollutants.
Bioremediation of Toxic Pollutants
This paper is not relevant to microplastics research — it is a broad review of bioremediation approaches for environmental pollutants including heavy metals and textile dyes, with no specific focus on microplastics.
Exploring Microbial-Based Green Nanobiotechnology for Wastewater Remediation: A Sustainable Strategy
This review examines how microbial-based green nanotechnology can serve as a sustainable alternative to conventional wastewater treatment methods. Researchers found that nanoparticles synthesized using microorganisms offer a cost-effective, eco-friendly approach to removing a broad range of water contaminants. The study compares the performance of these green nanomaterials against traditional treatment methods across factors like reusability, efficiency, and scalability.
Advances in Chemotactic and Non-chemotactic Bioremediation of Water: A Comprehensive Review
This review surveys both conventional and microbial-based approaches for cleaning up water contaminated by industrial and agricultural pollutants. Bioremediation is highlighted as the most eco-friendly option, using bacteria and other microorganisms to break down a wide range of waste types including plastics, heavy metals, and organic chemicals. The review identifies remaining challenges and promising directions for scaling up bioremediation in real-world applications.
Gum-based nanocomposites for the removal of metals and dyes from waste water
Researchers reviewed how natural gums like guar gum and xanthan gum can be combined with nanomaterials to create low-cost, eco-friendly materials for removing heavy metals and toxic dyes from wastewater. These gum-based nanocomposites are biodegradable and reusable, making them promising alternatives to synthetic adsorbents in water treatment systems.
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.
Green biosourced composite for efficient reactive dye decontamination: immobilized Gibberella fujikuroi on maize tassel biomatrix
Researchers immobilized the fungus Gibberella fujikuroi on a maize tassel biomatrix to create a green biosorbent that efficiently removed reactive dyes from contaminated water, achieving high decontamination rates in an environmentally friendly process.
Phycoremediation of wastewater for pollutant removal: A green approach to environmental protection and long-term remediation
This review examined phycoremediation using algae for wastewater treatment, highlighting its effectiveness in removing nutrients, heavy metals, and emerging pollutants as a green, sustainable alternative to conventional treatment methods.
Microbial mechanisms as tools for monitoring and treating emerging contaminants in urban pollution: an overview
This review examines the role of microorganisms in detecting, monitoring, and degrading emerging contaminants including microplastics in urban environments. The study highlights that bacteria and fungi can serve as both sensitive bioindicators of pollution and active agents for biodegradation, suggesting that microbial-based strategies hold promise for sustainable environmental remediation.