In this timely handbook, one of a series of three, leading contributors from around the world offer practical insights into the challenges and opportunities for using various technologies to tackle microplastic pollution and improve microplastic management in aquatic environments.
In this timely handbook, one of a series of three, leading contributors from around the world offer practical insights into the challenges and opportunities for using various technologies to tackle microplastic pollution and improve microplastic management in aquatic environments.
Through this book, readers will gain a deep understanding of microplastic pollution in both freshwater and marine environments and strategies and technologies to combat and manage this. To provide readers with this knowledge, the book is divided into four sections to explain microplastics in freshwater and marine environments and the impact of biofilm on microplastic pollution. The contributors first describe the characteristics of microplastics and their identification, roles in the pollution of aquatic environments, and impacts. They also describe microplastics in freshwater and marine environments through the use of case studies from both developing and developed countries from North America, Europe, Africa, and Asia. An introduction is provided at the beginning of each chapter for those interested in a brief synopsis, and copious references are provided for those wishing to study each chapter topic in greater detail. This book furnishes readers with the knowledge to reduce microplastics and prevent their improper disposal, which will prevent its intrusion and impact on biodiversity and ecosystems around the world and will also minimize economic losses caused by this emerging pollutant. For a wider perspective, readers are encouraged to refer to the other two titles in this series, subtitled Microplastic Pollution in the Soil and Monitoring and Treatment of Microplastics and Policy Perspectives.
In its exploration of the relationships among the characteristics of microplastics, their mobility, transport pathways, and treatment, this handbook represents a vital practical guide for academics, industry-based researchers, and policymakers that paves the ways for a new direction of water technology for future wastewater treatment.
1.Microplastics pollution: Distribution and sources in aquatic
environment
2. Role of microplastics as anthropogenic pollutants in aquatic
ecosystems
3. Hazard posed by additives to plastics upon disintegration as
microplastics
4. Migration, pathways and management of MPs through Remote
Sensing and GIS techniques
5. Sources, mechanisms, and interactions of
microplastics with abiotic and biotic factors in aquatic environment
6.
Interactions between microplastics and dissolved organic matter in freshwater
environment
7. Surface waters and sediments of an urban lake are
contaminated with microplastics
8. Microplastics pollution in surface waters
and sediments of urban lake
9. Impacts of microplastics as contaminants on
freshwater ecosystem and human food chain
10. Fate, distribution, transport
pathways (vertical or horizontal) of microplastics in freshwater
11. Biofilm
(eco-corona) formation from microplastics in freshwater
12. Role of biofilms
in the degradation of microplastics
13. Microplastic-associated biofilm and
its role in the fate of microplastics in aquatic environments
14. Artificial
intelligence (AI) to trace the pathways of MPs
15. Microplastic removal from
wastewater using biochar-based composites
16. Degradation of microplastics
in the aquatic environment by advanced oxidation process
17. Adsorption of
pollutants on microplastics in freshwater
18. Microplastics in Rivers from
Developing Countries: Current Knowledge and Cost-effective Analysis
Methodology Suggestions
19. The Effects of Microplastics on the Human Food
Chain and Freshwater Ecosystem
20. Microplastics in Tunisian aquatic
ecosystems: Current research trends, knowledge gaps, and prospects
21.
Chapter Microplastic removal from wastewater using biochar-based composites
22. Microplastic Pollution in the Environment: Microplastic in Fresh and
Drinking Water
23. Microplastic Pollution in the Environment: Microplastic
in Urban and Rural Environment
24. Microplastic pollution in the marine
environment and its potential effects on aquatic organisms
25. Microplastic
pollution in the marine environment and its potential effects on aquatic
organisms
26. Microplastic Contamination in Common Salt from Seawater:
Global Insights, Health Implications, and Mitigation Strategies
27.
Microplastics in the Mediterranean Sea
28. Microplastic Pollution in the
Environment: Microplastic in Marines and Oceans
29. Remote sensing
application for monitoring microplastic in aquatic environment: current
approaches, challenges, detection techniques and way forward
Tonni Agustiono Kurniawan is an Associate Professor at Xiamen University, China. He obtained his Bachelors Degree in Chemistry from Bogor Agricultural University, Indonesia, his Master of Science in Environmental Technology from Thammasat University, Thailand, and his PhD in Applied Biology and Chemical Technology at The Hong Kong Polytechnic University, China. He has been named as one of the top 2% of highly cited scientists in the field of Environmental Sciences by Stanford University.
Abdelkader Anouzla is with the Laboratory of Process Engineering and Environment, Faculty of Science and Technology, Hassan II University, Morocco. He attained his Ph.D. in Science & Technology at Hassan II University. Dr. Abdelkader ANOUZLA has published almost 100 peer-reviewed articles and ten books.
