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Removal of emerging pollutants from the environment through microbes
Journal
Relationship Between Microbes and the Environment for Sustainable Ecosystem Services, Volume 2: Microbial Mitigation of Waste for Sustainable Ecosystem Services
Date Issued
2022-01-01
Author(s)
Nishat, Yasar
Danish, Mohammad
Siddiqui, Nida
Hussain, Touseef
Abstract
Environmental pollution is a global issue for both developed and developing economies. These manmade activities influence all the components of the environment. The municipal, industrial waste and agricultural practices, increasingly domestic, which cause wastewater, are primary emerging pollutants nowadays. A large number of physical, chemical or biological substances comprising chemicals, pesticides, chemical fertilizers, heavy metals, non-degradable, bioaccumulation, nutrients, biological agents and toxic substances cause water and soil pollution. The rising level of these chemicals and compounds have only recently been identified as potential threats to the environment and are not yet widely regulated by national or international laws. It is a challenging issue for human society to solve these issues. New isolated promising microbes involve science and technology are available for solving the environmental pollution problem. Their metabolites and enzymes are playing important in removing toxicity in eco-friendly ways. This chapter is also emphasized the removal of emerging pollutants from the environment through microorganisms based technology, current consensus and representatives report in this area. In this remediation technology, bacteria, fungi, actinomycetes and some other organisms are also used that naturally occur for destroying or detoxifying the materials which hazardous to humans as well as the environment. This technology is frequently used because of its natural process, environment-friendly, economical, minimum equipment and energy requirement in addition to some other advantages also.
Volume
5
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