This book systematically summarizes the occurrence and source of MPs through various municipal and industrial wastewaters. It covers the type of MPs, its effects on human health and climate, and emerging detection and treatment methods.
Plastics are one of the refractory pollutants produced in many and varied forms using chemistry and materials science. Microplastics (MPs), which are formed as a result of plastics breaking down into small pieces, are a new indicator that indicates that the plastic footprint of humans is growing today and this has become a risk for the general living health and sustainable environment. Depending on the point of use, they are either directly released to the air, water, and soil, or they break down into secondary MPs in the environment where they are discharged. Especially by means of domestic wastewater, plenty of MPs enter the sewage system on a daily basis. Therefore, wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) draw attention as an important source of MP pollution in coastal or surface waters such as sea, lake, and river. There is still a limited number of studies on MPs in the literature and it has become the focus of many researchers around the world.
This book mainly focuses on the behavior of microplastics in the wastewaters. The book has 12 chapters and throughout each chapter, it presents the fate and effect of MPs, quantitative and qualitative analyses of MPs in wastewaters and treatment of MPs through conventional and advanced wastewater treatment technologies, effects of MPs on human health and climate change and also evaluates the legal restrictions for MPs pollution in the environment and will also be examined in all details. It also boosts the knowledge of students, researchers, scientists, professors, engineer, and professionals who aspire to work in the field of environmental science, environmental biotechnology, environmental microbiology, civil/environmental engineering, eco-toxicology and other relevant areas of wastewater treatment and management for the safety of environment. In addition to this, the readers of the book can also get the valuable information about the various environmental problems-related climate change and their solutions.
Edited by:
Maulin P. Shah,
Günay Yıldız Töre
Imprint: Springer International Publishing AG
Country of Publication: Switzerland
Edition: 2025 ed.
Dimensions:
Height: 235mm,
Width: 155mm,
ISBN: 9783031769481
ISBN 10: 3031769481
Series: Environmental Science and Engineering
Pages: 322
Publication Date: 12 March 2025
Audience:
Professional and scholarly
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College/higher education
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Undergraduate
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Further / Higher Education
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active
Microplastic properties and classification, sources and usage areas of MPs.- Potential environmental contamination by MPs.- Detection of MPs in water and wastewater.- Fate and occurrence of microplastic and nano plastic pollution in wastewaters.- Evaluation of MPs removal from wastewaters using conventional and advanced wastewater treatment processes.- Applications of membrane bioreactors for wastewater treatment: removal, mechanisms and perspectives of MPs.- Removal of MPs in water and wastewater using fungal system.- Removal of organic MPs by aerobic and anaerobic microorganism.- MPs as an emerging contaminant of industrial origin and their enzyme-assisted biodegradation.- Use of microalgae for the removal of MPs as an emerging contaminant from wastewaters.- Advanced nanotechnology for the degradation of MPs as persistent organic pollutants.- Ecotoxicological effects of MPs as emerging micropollutants: Examination of biomarkers, current state and future perspectives.- Micro- and nano plastic toxicity on aquatic life: fate, effect and remediation strategy.- MP pollution as an endocrine disrupting pollutant in domestic and industrial wastewater: occurrence and removal by advanced treatment system for wastewater reuse.- Environmental impact of MPs on human and climate change.- Microplastic pollution and its relationship with climate change.- Bioremediation as a strategy for the removal of MPs from wastewater.- Bisphenols in wastewater: occurrence, fate, effect, safety, biodegradation by bacterial community.
