The Bioremediation Potential of Seaweeds: Recycling Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Other Waste Products

Neveux, Nicolas; Bolton, John J.; Bruhn, Annette; Roberts, David A.; Ras, Monique

doi:10.1002/9783527801718.ch7

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“…Concurrent with the rapid, production-centered development of commercial shellfish and seaweed aquaculture sectors, there exists nascent interest in the development of shellfish and seaweed aquaculture for bioremediation, environmental improvement, and other non-consumptive purposes [11, 39]. The RAOI scenarios focused solely on inclusion of environmental factors (i.e., Fig 4C and 4D), and the HOMEs identified at the factor-specific-level (e.g., nutrient pollution in Fig 1A) provide insight into where development of shellfish and seaweed aquaculture for these purposes is likely to be most impactful.…”

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A global spatial analysis reveals where marine aquaculture can benefit nature and people

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Aquaculture of bivalve shellfish and seaweed represents a global opportunity to simultaneously advance coastal ecosystem recovery and provide substantive benefits to humanity. To identify marine ecoregions with the greatest potential for development of shellfish and seaweed aquaculture to meet this opportunity, we conducted a global spatial analysis using key environmental (e.g., nutrient pollution status), socioeconomic (e.g., governance quality), and human health factors (e.g., wastewater treatment prevalence). We identify a substantial opportunity for strategic sector development, with the highest opportunity marine ecoregions for shellfish aquaculture centered on Oceania, North America, and portions of Asia, and the highest opportunity for seaweed aquaculture distributed throughout Europe, Asia, Oceania, and North and South America. This study provides insights into specific areas where governments, international development organizations, and investors should prioritize new efforts to drive changes in public policy, capacity-building, and business planning to realize the ecosystem and societal benefits of shellfish and seaweed aquaculture.

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“…In fact, the natural cation exchanging properties of seaweed were well explained due to the presence of functional groups, such as carboxylic and sulfonic groups, on the surface of all red, brown, and green seaweeds [119,120,121,122]. These abovementioned chemical compositions of cell wall vary considerably among different types of seaweeds and the key difference in the cell wall matrix explained the variance in the affinity of brown, green, and red seaweeds for metal biosorption [123].…”

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Treatment of Wastewater Using Seaweed: A Review

Arumugam

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Kamyab

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Inadequately treated or untreated wastewater greatly contribute to the release of unwanted toxic contaminants into water bodies. Some of these contaminants are persistent and bioaccumulative, becoming a great concern as they are released into the environment. Despite the abundance of wastewater treatment technologies, the adsorption method overall has proven to be an excellent way to treat wastewater from multiple industry sources. Because of its significant benefits, i.e., easy availability, handling, and higher efficiency with a low cost relative to other treatments, adsorption is opted as the best method to be used. However, biosorption using naturally found seaweeds has been proven to have promising results in removing pollutants, such as dyes from textile, paper, and the printing industry, nitrogen, and phosphorous and phenolic compounds, as well as heavy metals from various sources. Due to its ecofriendly nature together with the availability and inexpensiveness of raw materials, biosorption via seaweed has become an alternative to the existing technologies in removing these pollutants from wastewater effectively. In this article, the use of low-cost adsorbent (seaweed) for the removal of pollutants from wastewater has been reviewed. An extensive table summarises the applicability of seaweed in treating wastewater. Literature reported that the majority of research used simulated wastewater and minor attention has been given to biosorption using seaweed in the treatment of real wastewater.

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“…Like plants in terrestrial land, seaweeds have similar ecological roles but in aquatic territory. Some macroalgae species may serve as bioindicators of the quality of water and some can do bioremediation by bioabsorption and bioaccumulation [4][5][6].…”

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Diverse Applications of Marine Macroalgae

2019

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The aim of this paper is to review the multiplicity of the current uses of marine macroalgae. Seaweeds are already used in many products and for different purposes, from food products to medicine. They are a natural resource that can provide a number of compounds with beneficial bioactivities like antioxidant, anti-inflammatory, anti-aging effects, among others. Despite studies directed in prospecting for their properties and the commodities already marketed, they could, surely, be even more researched and sustainably explored.

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The Bioremediation Potential of Seaweeds: Recycling Nitrogen, Phosphorus, and Other Waste Products

Cited by 50 publications

References 85 publications

A global spatial analysis reveals where marine aquaculture can benefit nature and people

A global spatial analysis reveals where marine aquaculture can benefit nature and people

Treatment of Wastewater Using Seaweed: A Review

Diverse Applications of Marine Macroalgae

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