Shandong Provincial Key Laboratory of Water Pollution Control and Resource Reuse, School of Environmental Science and Engineering, Shandong University, Qingdao, Shandong 266237, China; Suzhou Research Institute, Shandong University, Suzhou, Jiangsu 215123, China; Shenzhen Research Institute, Shandong University, Shenzhen, Guangdong 518052, China.
Department of Soil and Environmental Sciences, Muhammad Nawaz Shareef University of Agriculture, Multan, Pakistan.
Sci Total Environ. 2022 Feb 25;809:151926. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2021.151926. Epub 2021 Nov 26.
Emerging pollutants (EPs) create a worldwide concern owing to their low concentration and severe toxicity to the receptors. The prominent emerging pollutants categories as pharmaceutical and personal care product, plasticizer, surfactants, and persistent organic pollutants. Typically, EPs are widely disseminated in the aquatic ecosystem and capable of perturbing the physiology of water bodies as well as humans. The primary sources of EPs in the environment include anthropogenic release, atmospheric deposition, untreated or substandard treated wastewater, and extreme weather events. Intensive research has been done covering the environmental distribution, ecological disturbance, fate, and removal of EPs in the past decades. However, a systematic review on the distribution of EPs in the engineered and natural aquatic environment and the degradation of different EPs by using anaerobic sludge, aerobic bacteria, and isolated strains are limited. This review article aims to highlight the importance, application, and future perceptions of using different microbes to degrade EPs. Overall, this review article illustrates the superiority of using non-cultivable and cultivable microbes to degrade the EPs as an eco-friendly approach. Practically, the outcomes of this review paper will build up the knowledge base solutions to remove EPs from the wastewater.
新兴污染物（EPs）由于其浓度低和对受体的严重毒性而引起了全球关注。突出的新兴污染物类别包括药物和个人护理产品、增塑剂、表面活性剂和持久性有机污染物。通常，EPs 广泛分布在水生生态系统中，能够干扰水体和人类的生理功能。环境中 EPs 的主要来源包括人为排放、大气沉积、未经处理或不达标的废水以及极端天气事件。在过去几十年中，已经进行了大量的研究，涵盖了 EPs 在环境中的分布、生态干扰、命运和去除。然而，系统地综述 EPs 在工程和自然水生环境中的分布以及利用厌氧污泥、好氧细菌和分离菌株降解不同 EPs 的研究还很有限。本文旨在强调利用不同微生物降解 EPs 的重要性、应用和未来展望。总的来说，本文说明了利用不可培养和可培养微生物降解 EPs 作为一种环保方法的优越性。实际上，本文的研究结果将为从废水中去除 EPs 提供知识库解决方案。
