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Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Pollution Prevention and Waste Management

A special issue of International Journal of Environmental Research and Public Health (ISSN 1660-4601). This special issue belongs to the section "Environmental Science and Engineering".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 September 2023) | Viewed by 2956

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2. Centre for Environmental and Marine Studies (CESAM), University of Aveiro, Campus de Santiago, 3810-193 Aveiro, Portugal
Interests: antimicrobial resistance; environmental health; microbial contamination of air, water, wastewater and soil; One Health Approach; intensification of high-energy biogas production from organic waste

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Department of Applied Chemistry and Physics, University of León, Campus de Vegazana s/n, 24071 León, Spain
Interests: water pollution and contamination; water purification; wastewater treatment; sustainable treatment processes; circular economy; biomass energy; biowastes management and valorization; novel materials: production, characterization and utilization
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Dear Colleagues,

We are pleased to announce this collection entitled “Editorial Board Members' Collection Series: Pollution Prevention and Waste Management”. This issue will be a collection of papers by researchers invited by the Editorial Board Members. The aim is to provide a venue for networking and communication between IJERPH and scholars in the field of pollution prevention and waste management. All papers will be fully open access upon publication after peer review.

Prof. Dr. Ewa Korzeniewska
Prof. Dr. Marta Otero
Guest Editors

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Keywords

  • source reduction
  • recycling
  • energy recovery
  • waste valorization
  • waste and wastewater treatment
  • waste disposal
  • sustainable waste management strategies
  • wastewater
  • wastewater treatment plant
  • sewage sludge
  • landfills
  • leachate
  • contaminants
  • waste

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Study of the Phytoextraction and Phytodegradation of Sulfamethoxazole and Trimethoprim from Water by Limnobium laevigatum
by Klaudia Stando, Aleksandra Czyż, Magdalena Gajda, Ewa Felis and Sylwia Bajkacz
Int. J. Environ. Res. Public Health 2022, 19(24), 16994; https://doi.org/10.3390/ijerph192416994 - 17 Dec 2022
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Abstract
Phytoremediation is an environmentally friendly and economical method for removing organic contaminants from water. The purpose of the present study was to use Limnobium laevigatum for the phytoremediation of water from sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and trimethoprim (TRI) residues. The experiment was conducted for 14 [...] Read more.
Phytoremediation is an environmentally friendly and economical method for removing organic contaminants from water. The purpose of the present study was to use Limnobium laevigatum for the phytoremediation of water from sulfamethoxazole (SMX) and trimethoprim (TRI) residues. The experiment was conducted for 14 days, in which the loss of the pharmaceuticals in water and their concentration in plant tissues was monitored. Determination of SMX and TRI was conducted using liquid chromatography coupled with tandem mass spectrometry. The results revealed that various factors affected the removal of the contaminants from water, and their bioaccumulation coefficients were obtained. Additionally, the transformation products of SMX and TRI were identified. The observed decrease in SMX and TRI content after 14 days was 96.0% and 75.4% in water, respectively. SMX removal mainly involved photolysis and hydrolysis processes, whereas TRI was mostly absorbed by the plant. Bioaccumulation coefficients of the freeze-dried plant were in the range of 0.043–0.147 for SMX and 2.369–2.588 for TRI. Nine and six transformation products related to SMX and TRI, respectively, were identified in water and plant tissues. The detected transformation products stemmed from metabolic transformations and photolysis of the parent compounds. Full article
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