Recent literature on biosorption as a sustainable environmental technology to remove pollutants

ELIANA SOLEDAD LEMOS; ESTEFANIA BELEN INGRASSIA; LETICIA BELEN ESCUDERO

Biotechnology for Toxicity Remediation and Environmental Sustainability

CRC Press, Taylor and Francis Group

Lugar: Florida, Boca Raton; Año: 2023; p. 1 - 33

Environmental issues such as ozone layer depletion, overpopulation,biodiversity loss, global warming, natural resource depletion, and so on affectevery organism on the planet somehow. Environmental biotechnology applicationscan help to protect and restore the quality of the environment. The goal is touse biotechnology with other technologies and safety procedures to prevent,arrest, and reverse environmental degradation. Environmental biotechnology isone of the most rapidly expanding and practically useful scientific fields.Biochemistry, physiology and genetic research of microorganisms can be convertedinto commercially available technologies for reversing and preventing furtherdeterioration of the earth´s environment. Solid, liquid, and gaseous wastes canbe altered either by recycling new by-products or by purifying to make the endproduct less harmful to the environment. Biotechnology for ToxicRemediation and Environmental Sustainability discusses the removal ofpollutants by absorption techniques and recycling wastewater into valuableby-products and biofuels by microorganisms. Moreover, this book also addressescorrosion prevention by green inhibitors, uses electrochemical systems forrenewable energy and waste recycling using microbes, and recent food safety andsecurity trends in the food microbiome. On the other hand, this book alsodiscusses therapy and treatments against antibiotic-resistant bacteria,anti-cancer and pharmacological properties of thymoquinone and preventiveproperties of zinc nanoparticles against stress-mediated apoptosis inepithelial cells.