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The trend of bioremediation as an effective technology in soil decontamination

Not relevant to microplastics — this review covers bioremediation techniques using bacteria, fungi, and plants to clean up soil contaminated with hydrocarbons, pesticides, and heavy metals.

2023 Seven Editora eBooks 1 citations
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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.

2025 Natural and Engineering Sciences 4 citations
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Bioremediation of environmental wastes: the role of microorganisms

This review discusses how bacteria, fungi, and algae can be used to clean up environmental pollution including plastic waste, heavy metals, and pesticides through a process called bioremediation. These biological cleanup methods are relevant to microplastic pollution because certain microorganisms may be able to break down plastic particles in contaminated soil and water.

2023 Frontiers in Agronomy 315 citations
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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.

2023 BENTHAM SCIENCE PUBLISHERS eBooks 1 citations
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Bioremediation of Agricultural Soils

This review examines biological approaches to cleaning up contaminated agricultural soils, including microplastics and other emerging pollutants from irrigation water and sewage sludge. Bioremediation using microorganisms and plants offers sustainable pathways for restoring soil health.

2019 51 citations
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Microbial synergies in phytoremediation: A comprehensive review

Not relevant to microplastics — this is a review of how soil microorganisms (bacteria, fungi) assist plants in removing pollutants like heavy metals and hydrocarbons through phytoremediation; while the study addresses environmental contamination broadly, it does not examine microplastic pollution or its effects.

2026 International Journal of Advanced Biochemistry Research
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Potential strategies for bioremediation of microplastic contaminated soil

Researchers reviewed emerging bioremediation strategies for removing microplastics from contaminated soil, highlighting the roles of plants, root-zone microbes, soil animals like earthworms, and specialized bacteria and fungi that can use enzymes to break down plastic polymers into harmless compounds. While genetic engineering of microbes shows promise for accelerating degradation, the review notes that real-world application at scale still requires significant research and development.

2024 Environmental Chemistry and Ecotoxicology 47 citations
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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.

2023 Processes 40 citations
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Bioremediation of Microplastics in Wastewater Treatment Plants: A Sustainable Approach

This review examines bioremediation as a sustainable strategy for removing microplastics from wastewater treatment plants, synthesizing knowledge on bacterial, fungal, algal, and enzymatic degradation pathways across different treatment stages. The authors evaluate bioaugmentation and biostimulation strategies and highlight their potential for integration into operational wastewater treatment infrastructure.

2025 ACS symposium series
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Современное состояние и тенденции в экологической биотехнологии

This review examines the current state and trends in environmental biotechnology for achieving sustainable development goals, covering biotechnological approaches for remediating soil, water, and air from persistent and hazardous pollutants, with a dedicated chapter on the utilization and remediation of aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems contaminated with synthetic materials including microplastics.

2024 Biologia et Biotechnologia
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Evaluation on the Biological Aspect of Plant, Contaminant Types and Application of Phytoremediation for Environmental and Economical Sustainability

This review assessed how different types of plants can be used to clean up environmental contaminants, including microplastics, from soil, water, and sediments. Researchers found that various plant species can effectively remove or stabilize pollutants through natural biological processes, and that newer technologies like genetic engineering and nanotechnology can further enhance these capabilities. The study suggests that plant-based remediation offers a cost-effective and environmentally friendly approach to addressing pollution while also supporting carbon sequestration and soil health.

2026 Journal of Advances in Biology & Biotechnology 1 citations
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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.

2025 Microbial Cell Factories 50 citations
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Advancing bioremediation: biosurfactants as catalysts for sustainable remediation

This review examines how biosurfactants, natural cleaning agents produced by microorganisms, can help break down stubborn pollutants including microplastics. Unlike synthetic chemicals, biosurfactants are biodegradable and less toxic, making them a greener option for environmental cleanup. The research suggests these biological tools could play an important role in reducing microplastic contamination in soil and water, potentially lowering human exposure over time.

2025 Biodegradation 6 citations
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Microbes mediated plastic degradation: A sustainable approach for environmental sustainability

This review examines microbially mediated plastic degradation as a sustainable environmental cleanup strategy, surveying bacterial and fungal species capable of breaking down common polymers and discussing enzymatic pathways and factors limiting practical biodegradation rates.

2022 Journal of Applied Biology & Biotechnology 9 citations
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Evidence on Potential Bioremediation of Microplastics from Soil Environment around the World

This review examines evidence for bioremediation of microplastics from soil environments, evaluating how plants, bacteria, fungi, and other organisms can help remove or break down plastic particles in terrestrial ecosystems. While soil is a primary sink for microplastics, biological approaches to soil cleanup remain underdeveloped compared to aquatic bioremediation research.

2023 ACS symposium series 2 citations
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Challenges and Sustainable Solutions for the Detection and Bioremediation of Microplastic Pollution

This review surveyed the latest challenges in detecting microplastics in complex environmental matrices and assessed biological remediation strategies including bacteria, fungi, and algae capable of degrading common plastic polymers. It highlighted gaps between laboratory degradation rates and real-world effectiveness.

2024 1 citations
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Engineering a Solution: Recent Technological Advances in the Microbial Bioremediation of Microplastics

This review examines recent advances in microbial bioremediation of microplastics, highlighting the limitations of conventional treatments and presenting biological alternatives using bacteria, fungi, and algae capable of degrading plastic polymers. The authors discuss key enzymatic mechanisms and the potential for scaling microbial approaches as sustainable remediation tools for plastic pollution.

2025 SPIRE - Sciences Po Institutional REpository
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Eco‐Friendly Solutions to Emerging Contaminants: Unveiling the Potential of Bioremediation in Tackling Microplastic Pollution in Water

This review examines bioremediation -- using microorganisms to break down microplastics in water -- as a greener alternative to costly physical and chemical removal methods. While certain bacteria and fungi show real promise in degrading plastics like polyethylene and polystyrene, challenges remain in scaling these approaches. Reducing microplastics in water is important because contaminated water is one of the main ways these particles reach humans.

2024 Advanced Sustainable Systems 23 citations
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Bioremediation to Overcome Microplastic Contamination in The Water Environment

This review examines how living organisms such as bacteria, algae, and worms can be used to break down and remove microplastics from water environments. Researchers evaluated evidence from 23 studies and found that bioremediation shows promise as a sustainable, low-cost approach to addressing microplastic contamination. The study identifies the key factors that influence how well these biological methods work and the challenges that remain before they can be widely deployed.

2024 IOP Conference Series Earth and Environmental Science 7 citations
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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.

2022 Applied Environmental Research 4 citations
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Fungal Bioremediation: A Sustainable Strategy for Microplastic Removal from Polluted Water

This review covers fungal bioremediation of microplastic pollution in water, examining how various fungal species degrade plastic polymers, the mechanisms involved (enzymatic oxidation, biofilm formation), and the feasibility of scaling these biological approaches for water treatment applications.

2025 Egyptian Journal of Aquatic Biology and Fisheries
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Decontamination of pollutants present in water, air, and soil through phytoremediation: a critical review

This critical review examines phytoremediation — the use of plants to remove contaminants from soil, water, and air — covering mechanisms such as phytoextraction, phytodegradation, and rhizofiltration, and assessing their effectiveness for heavy metals, organic pollutants, and microplastics.

2025 International Journal of Phytoremediation
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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.

2023
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Plants for saving the environment- Phytoremediation

This review covers phytoremediation, a technology that uses plants to remove pollutants including heavy metals and organic compounds from contaminated soil, water, and air. The authors discuss how different plant groups and their root microbiomes contribute to extracting and degrading environmental contaminants.

2023 Acta Societatis Botanicorum Poloniae