Sustainable remediation and redevelopment of brownfield sites

D Hou, A Al-Tabbaa, D O'Connor, Q Hu… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
Widespread pollution from industrial activities has driven land degradation with detrimental
human health effects, especially in urban areas. Remediation and redevelopment of the …

A review on biosynthesis of metal nanoparticles and its environmental applications

A Saravanan, PS Kumar, S Karishma, DVN Vo… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
Nanotechnology has become one of the emerging multi-disciplinary fields receiving
universal attention and playing a substantial role in agriculture, environment and …

Sustainalism: An integrated socio-economic-environmental model to address sustainable development and sustainability

NP Hariram, KB Mekha, V Suganthan, K Sudhakar - Sustainability, 2023 - mdpi.com
This paper delves into the multifaceted concept of sustainability, covering its evolution, laws,
principles, as well as the different domains and challenges related to achieving it in the …

Emerging organic contaminants in global community drinking water sources and supply: A review of occurrence, processes and remediation

A Mukhopadhyay, S Duttagupta, A Mukherjee - Journal of Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Human-sourced organic compounds like pesticides, pharmaceuticals, surfactants, personal
care products, food, and industrial additives are used daily, across multiple sectors, globally …

A green biochar/iron oxide composite for methylene blue removal

P Zhang, D O'Connor, Y Wang, L Jiang, T Xia… - Journal of hazardous …, 2020 - Elsevier
Adsorbents that effectively remove dye substances from industrial effluents are needed for
the protection of human health and the natural environment. However, adsorbent …

Agricultural waste materials for adsorptive removal of phenols, chromium (VI) and cadmium (II) from wastewater: A review

A Othmani, S Magdouli, PS Kumar, A Kapoor… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Management of basic natural resources and the spent industrial and domestic streams to
provide a sustainable safe environment for healthy living is a magnum challenge to …

Layered photocatalytic nanomaterials for environmental applications

F Chen, Y Zhang, H Huang - Chinese Chemical Letters, 2023 - Elsevier
The increasing pollution and human demand for a cleaner environment have made
achieving the environmental sustainability a current research focus. As a “green” …

Surfactant-enhanced remediation of oil-contaminated soil and groundwater: a review

JW Liu, KH Wei, SW Xu, J Cui, J Ma, XL Xiao… - Science of the Total …, 2021 - Elsevier
Oil leakage, which is inevitable in the process of extraction, processing, transportation and
storage, seriously undermines the soil and groundwater environment. Surfactants can …

Layered double hydroxides-based photocatalysts and visible-light driven photodegradation of organic pollutants: A review

G Zhang, X Zhang, Y Meng, G Pan, Z Ni… - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Layered double hydroxides (LDHs) and their derivatives are a family of promising
photocatalysts that have been widely used in photodegradation of organic pollutants. We …

The current approach to soil remediation: a review of physicochemical and biological technologies, and the potential of their strategic combination

JD Aparicio, EE Raimondo, JM Saez… - Journal of …, 2022 - Elsevier
In the last decades, the growing industrial activities, rapid urbanization, highest consumption
rates, and non-safe human practices have greatly increased soil pollution with …