Can absorbent polymers remove pesticides from environment? A Data Mining study.

Abstract

Pesticides are essential for improving agriculture, which is required for global food security. Nowadays, with population growth, these chemistry products are more explored and improved to enhance food production. The excessive use of herbicides, insecticides, and fungicides prompts several environmental damages, besides causing lack of natural and clean resources, promoting the alarming contaminated food rate worldwide. In face of critical human health issues, researchers are racing to understand how to minimize the environmental effects through new or fixed methods to detect and remove pesticide residues from the environment. In addition to seeking to develop and implement rules on the use of agrochemical products, there are other promising strategies in which polymers with inherent adsorption activity are the main focus in view of their chemical properties and of reusability. Modern research on pesticide absorption polymers (PAP) and their employment in contaminated soil show that they can be used for pesticide detection or remotion, by chemical interaction mechanisms, which is more efficient than the latest. In view of all arguments, this paper shows the main issues covered in the articles on using polymers to detect agrochemical products from the environment. These analyses were made on the platforms Scopus and Web of Science. The results concluded that the principal search focus was on detecting high-hazard pesticides using polymers. The materials which were most mentioned were the methyl methacrylate polymer, the alkaline phosphatase biosensor and some metal coordination polymers, which can interact with complex groups of agrotoxics.