Simultaneous removal of organics and heavy metals from industrial wastewater: A review

TO Ajiboye, OA Oyewo, DC Onwudiwe - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The co-existence of heavy metals and organics in industrial effluents is a prevalent problem.
These pollutants usually have dissimilar compositions and properties, making their complete …

Application of synthetic consortia for improvement of soil fertility, pollution remediation, and agricultural productivity: a review

P Chaudhary, M Xu, L Ahamad, A Chaudhary, G Kumar… - Agronomy, 2023 - mdpi.com
Climate change, inadequate possessions, and land degradation all pose obstacles to
modern agriculture. In the current scenario, the agriculture industry is mainly dependent on …

Bioremediation of co-contaminated soil with heavy metals and pesticides: Influence factors, mechanisms and evaluation methods

H Zhang, X Yuan, T Xiong, H Wang, L Jiang - Chemical Engineering …, 2020 - Elsevier
Soil co-contaminated with heavy metals and pesticides has caused large global
environmental issues. The interaction of heavy metals and pesticides make the …

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 …

Actinobacteria: current research and perspectives for bioremediation of pesticides and heavy metals

A Alvarez, JM Saez, JSD Costa, VL Colin, MS Fuentes… - Chemosphere, 2017 - Elsevier
Actinobacteria exhibit cosmopolitan distribution since their members are widely distributed
in aquatic and terrestrial ecosystems. In the environment they play relevant ecological roles …

Leaching of graphene oxide nanosheets in simulated soil and their influences on microbial communities

Q Zhou, D Li, T Wang, X Hu - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2021 - Elsevier
With the wide use of graphene-like nanosheets, especially in agriculture, their release into
the environment, it is crucial to grasp the fate of nanosheets in soil and minimum ecological …

Microbial community responses to vanadium distributions in mining geological environments and bioremediation assessment

B Zhang, S Wang, M Diao, J Fu, M Xie… - Journal of …, 2019 - Wiley Online Library
Vanadium mining activities can cause contamination of the surrounding geological
environment. Vanadium may exist in multiple matrices due to its migration and …

An overview on heavy metal resistant microorganisms for simultaneous treatment of multiple chemical pollutants at co-contaminated sites, and their multipurpose …

Z Rahman - Journal of Hazardous Materials, 2020 - Elsevier
Anthropogenic imbalance of chemical pollutants in environment raises serious threat to all
life forms. Contaminated sites often possess multiple heavy metals and other types of …

A critical review on the formation, fate and degradation of the persistent organic pollutant hexachlorocyclohexane in water systems and waste streams

S Adithya, RS Jayaraman, A Krishnan, R Malolan… - Chemosphere, 2021 - Elsevier
The environmental impacts of persistent organic pollutants (POPs) is an increasingly
prominent topic in the scientific community. POPs are stable chemicals that are accumulated …

Insights into the biodegradation of lindane (γ-hexachlorocyclohexane) using a microbial system

W Zhang, Z Lin, S Pang, P Bhatt, S Chen - Frontiers in Microbiology, 2020 - frontiersin.org
Lindane (γ-hexachlorocyclohexane) is an organochlorine pesticide that has been widely
used in agriculture over the last seven decades. The increasing residues of lindane in soil …