“…One possible way to mitigate this is to identify key waste streams and to remove or destroy the antibiotics within such sources before they are discharged into the environment, as shown schematically in Figure 5. Plasma discharges have long been shown to be capable of eliminating a wide range of antibiotics in wastewater, including tetracycline [135,136], oxytetracycline, doxycycline [137], β-lactams [138], ofloxacin, ampicillin [139,140], amoxicillin, sulfamethoxazole [141,142], sulfadiazine [136,143], levofloxacin [143], norfloxacin [136] and ciprofloxacin [144]. Interestingly, the plasma is also capable of inactivating antibioticresistant bacteria and antibiotic-resistant genes in wastewater [145].…”