Green remediation of pharmaceutical wastes using biochar: a review

Monisha, Ravichandran Swathy; Mani, Ragupathy Lakshmi; Sivaprakash, Baskaran; Rajamohan, N.; Vo, Dai‐Viet N.

doi:10.1007/s10311-021-01348-y

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“…The global community is currently facing unprecedented environmental concerns. Contaminants emitted from residential, commercial, and industrial sources frequently affect the environment (Monisha et al 2021 ). The literature demonstrates that water and soil are more vulnerable to both organic and inorganic contaminants mainly caused by human activity.…”

Section: Environmental Remediationmentioning

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Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a review

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In the context of climate change and the circular economy, biochar has recently found many applications in various sectors as a versatile and recycled material. Here, we review application of biochar-based for carbon sink, covering agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, environmental remediation, construction, and energy storage. The ultimate storage reservoirs for biochar are soils, civil infrastructure, and landfills. Biochar-based fertilisers, which combine traditional fertilisers with biochar as a nutrient carrier, are promising in agronomy. The use of biochar as a feed additive for animals shows benefits in terms of animal growth, gut microbiota, reduced enteric methane production, egg yield, and endo-toxicant mitigation. Biochar enhances anaerobic digestion operations, primarily for biogas generation and upgrading, performance and sustainability, and the mitigation of inhibitory impurities. In composts, biochar controls the release of greenhouse gases and enhances microbial activity. Co-composted biochar improves soil properties and enhances crop productivity. Pristine and engineered biochar can also be employed for water and soil remediation to remove pollutants. In construction, biochar can be added to cement or asphalt, thus conferring structural and functional advantages. Incorporating biochar in biocomposites improves insulation, electromagnetic radiation protection and moisture control. Finally, synthesising biochar-based materials for energy storage applications requires additional functionalisation.

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Section: Environmental Remediationmentioning

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Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a review

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“…The microbial community, microbiome, encounters a multitude of inhibitors during the AD process, such as heavy metals, ammonia, sulfate, organic solvents, and the high pressure of hydrogen, which can be removed by absorbents [73][74][75]. The large surface area of GAC provides a powerful absorbent to break the inhibition (Fig.…”

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Enhanced methane production by granular activated carbon: A review

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Kumar

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“…Since then, numerous studies have reported their adverse effects and risks on environmental and public health. Pharmaceuticals constitute a notorious class of anthropogenic waste, often with high toxicities and persistence in the environment if disposed of inappropriately (Caban and Stepnowski 2021;Han 2022;Monisha 2022;Morin-Crini et al 2022;Zare et al 2022). At parts per trillion levels, those bioactive substances elicit undesired responses in aquatic or terrestrial biota, bioaccumulate and pose direct risks to humans through food and drinking water (Miège et al 2009;Nakada et al 2006;Velpandian et al 2018;Wee et al 2020).…”

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Waves of pharmaceutical waste

Han

Lichtfouse

2022

Environ Chem Lett

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The viral waves observed during the coronavirus disease 2019 pandemic are suggesting a new global phenomenon by which a global change, e.g., a viral wave, is inducing a wave of waste, that is a sudden rise of waste and associated pollution due to sharp and time-limited changes of human behavior. The originality of this phenomenon is that the crisis-here the pandemic-is fast and global, compared to previous crises which were slower, more restricted, and local, and that the crisis is limited in time, like a wave. This wave-of-waste phenomenon fits well with the entrance into the Anthropocene, theorized by Nobel Prize winner Paul Crutzen, where humans now influence the planet globally. Here we argue why such waves-of-waste are likely to occur more frequently in the next global crises, on the basis of the sudden rises of pharmaceutical waste observed during the pandemic.The World Health Organization declared COVID-19 as a global pandemic on March 11, 2020 (WHO 2020. Now more than two years into the pandemic, there have been more than 500 million confirmed cases, including over six million deaths around the globe, making it the largest public health crisis in the past one hundred years (WHO 2022a). With the recent emergence and spread of new variants, global weekly new infections surged to new records at the beginning of 2022 (Wang and Han 2022; WHO 2022a WHO , 2022b. The pandemic has strongly affected almost all countries, thus inducing an unprecedented sharp rise of waste production.

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Green remediation of pharmaceutical wastes using biochar: a review

Cited by 49 publications

References 116 publications

Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a review

Biochar for agronomy, animal farming, anaerobic digestion, composting, water treatment, soil remediation, construction, energy storage, and carbon sequestration: a review

Enhanced methane production by granular activated carbon: A review

Waves of pharmaceutical waste

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