Biodegradable plastics: Standards, policies, and impacts

L Filiciotto, G Rothenberg - ChemSusChem, 2021 - Wiley Online Library
Plastics are ubiquitous in our society. They are in our phones, clothes, bottles, and cars. Yet
having improved our lives considerably, they now threaten our environment and our health …

[HTML][HTML] Expanding ecological assessment by integrating microorganisms into routine freshwater biomonitoring

M Sagova-Mareckova, J Boenigk, A Bouchez… - Water research, 2021 - Elsevier
Bioindication has become an indispensable part of water quality monitoring in most
countries of the world, with the presence and abundance of bioindicator taxa, mostly …

Trends in predictive biodegradation for sustainable mitigation of environmental pollutants: Recent progress and future outlook

AK Singh, M Bilal, HMN Iqbal, A Raj - Science of The Total Environment, 2021 - Elsevier
The feasibility of in-silico techniques, together with the computational framework, has been
applied to predictive bioremediation aiming to clean-up contaminants, toxicity evaluation …

A review of the nature, role and control of lithobionts on stone cultural heritage: Weighing-up and managing biodeterioration and bioprotection

SE Favero-Longo, HA Viles - World Journal of Microbiology and …, 2020 - Springer
Lithobionts (rock-dwelling organisms) have been recognized as agents of aesthetic and
physico-chemical deterioration of stonework. In consequence, their removal from cultural …

Sulfamethoxazole/Trimethoprim ratio as a new marker in raw wastewaters: A critical review

T Thiebault - Science of the total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Abstract Global Trimethoprim (TMP) and Sulfamethoxazole (SMX) occurrences in raw
wastewaters were systematically collected from the literature (n= 140 articles) in order to …

Methodological advances to study contaminant biotransformation: new prospects for understanding and reducing environmental persistence?

K Fenner, M Elsner, T Lueders, MS McLachlan… - ACS Es&t …, 2021 - ACS Publications
Complex microbial communities in environmental systems play a key role in the
detoxification of chemical contaminants by transforming them into less active metabolites or …

[HTML][HTML] Predicting and improving the microbial removal of organic micropollutants during wastewater treatment: A review

AB Rios-Miguel, TJHM van Bergen, C Zillien… - Chemosphere, 2023 - Elsevier
Organic micropollutants (OMPs) consist of widely used chemicals such as pharmaceuticals
and pesticides that can persist in surface and groundwaters at low concentrations (ng/L to …

Scientific concepts and methods for moving persistence assessments into the 21st century

R Davenport, P Curtis‐Jackson… - Integrated …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
The evaluation of a chemical substance's persistence is key to understanding its
environmental fate, exposure concentration, and, ultimately, environmental risk. Traditional …

Microbial diversity alteration reveals biomarkers of contamination in soil-river-lake continuum

Z Bourhane, A Lanzén, C Cagnon, OB Said… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2022 - Elsevier
Microbial communities inhabiting soil-water-sediment continuum in coastal areas provide
important ecosystem services. Their adaptation in response to environmental stressors …

[HTML][HTML] Influence of redox condition and inoculum on micropollutant biodegradation by soil and activated sludge communities

RHR Branco, RJW Meulepas, HPJ van Veelen… - Science of the Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Micropollutant biodegradation is selected by the interplay among environmental conditions
and microbial community composition. This study investigated how different electron …