Contents
1 Nanotechnology in Agriculture, the Food Sector, and Remediation:
Prospects, Relations, and Constraints ....................... 1
Anna Gorczyca, Ewa Pociecha, and Ewelina Matras
2 Nanotechnology-Based Treatment Systems for Arsenic Sequestration
in Groundwater: Contamination, Challenges and Future Scope
of Studies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
Ajay Kumar, Pankaj Kumar Gupta, and Sanjay Kumar Gupta
3 Development of Polyhydroxyalkanoate (PHA) and Its Copolymers
as a Possible “Cure” for the Plastic Pollution . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 59
Ramamoorthi Sivashankari and Takeharu Tsuge
4 Advanced Technologies for Ecological Reconstruction and
Bioremediation of Degraded Land . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
Marian Butu, Ioan Sarac, Mihaela Corneanu, and Monica Butnariu
5 The Recent Strategies Employed in Chemical Analysis
of Contaminated Waters, Sediments and Soils as a Part
of the Remediation Process: Extraction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
Lucia Nemček and Ingrid Hagarová
6 Fluoride Remediation Using Membrane Processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
Vijaylaxmi and Suphiya Khan
7 A Two-Stage Constructed Wetland Design Integrating Artificial
Aeration and Sludge Mineralization for Municipal Wastewater
Treatment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
Alexandros I. Stefanakis
8 Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs): Sources, Types, Impacts,
and Their Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
Amtul Bari Tabinda Akhtar, Samra Naseem, Abdullah Yasar,
and Zunaira Naseem
9 Emerging Microfiber Pollution and Its Remediation . . . . . . . . . . . . 247
Sunanda Mishra, Prasant Kumar Rout, and Alok Prasad Das
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10 Environment Remediation Tools: Chemosensors and Biosensors . . 267
J. Brindha, Milind Shrinivas Dangate, and M. M. Balamurali
11 Adsorptive Chromatography: A Sustainable Strategy for Treatment
of Food and Pharmaceutical Industrial Effluents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 295
Anand S. Gupta, Piyush Kumar, Soumya Pandit, and Ram Prasad
12 Remediation of Heavy Metals Through Genetically Engineered
Microorganism . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 315
Neerja Srivastava
13 Heavy Metal Removal Processes by Sulfate-Reducing Bacteria . . . . 367
María Isabel Neria-González and Ricardo Aguilar-López
14 Biological Implications of Dioxins/Furans Bioaccumulation in
Ecosystems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 395
Jose Gnanaleela Aswin Jeno, Ravichandran Rathna,
and Ekambaram Nakkeeran
15 The Role of Microorganisms in Remediation of Environmental
Contaminants . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 421
Gaganpreet Kaur, Damanjeet Kaur, and Saurabh Gupta
16 Causes, Effects and Sustainable Approaches to Remediate
Contaminated Soil . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 451
Meenu Gautam, Srishti Mishra, and Madhoolika Agrawal