Micro-pollutants in surface water: Impacts on the aquatic environment and treatment technologies

Bio-based rhamnolipids production and recovery from waste streams: Status and perspectives

“…Rhamnolipid have been used to remediate heavy metals, dyes, pesticides, hydrocarbons, oil spills and contaminated soils, etc. (Varjani, 2017;Patel et al, 2018;Lee and Kim, 2019;Wei et al, 2020;Kumar et al, 2020). Rhamnolipids help in remediation process by emulsifying or solubilizing hydrocarbons and modifying bacterial cell surface properties for intensification of interfacial uptake of hydrocarbons (Liu et al, 2018).…”

Recovery of resources from industrial wastewater employing electrochemical technologies: status, advancements and perspectives

“…Rapid industrialization has a dramatic effect on developing countries leading to significant losses to economic well-being in terms of toxicological impacts on humans and the environment via air and soil pollution [32]. Human-induced pollution affects the world's natural water resources to the extent that it becomes impossible to reestablish pristine conditions [33][34][35]. When industrial effluent is discharged into bodies of water without being properly treated, it causes serious water contamination.…”

The effects of emerging contaminants on the behaviour of Acinetobacter calcoaceticus derived from biofilms

“…Emerging contaminants (ECs), otherwise described as micropollutants 1,2 or contaminants of emerging concern, 3 are organic or inorganic 4,5 occurring compounds (chemicals or microorganisms) of anthropogenic or natural origin, 1 found in the environment at residual concentrations (ng L −1 and μg L −1 ). 1,4,6 Due to the extensive and abusive use of ECs, including the class of pharmaceuticals, they are continuously released into the environment.…”