Occurrence and removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products using subsurface horizontal flow constructed wetlands

Delgado, Nasly; Bermeo, Lizeth; Hoyos, Daniel A.; Peñuela, Gustavo A.; Capparelli, Alberto L.; Marino, Damián; Navarro, Agustín F.; Casas, Juan Carlos

doi:10.1016/j.watres.2020.116448

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“…The high removal capacity of Phragmites australis was also demonstrated on the antiepileptic carbamazepine in a study that highlighted how several bacterial species isolated from Phragmites australis endosphere (i.e., the internal root tissue) were able to remove and degrade this recalcitrant molecule (Sauvêtre and Schröeder 2015). On the opposite, subsurface horizontal flow constructed wetlands planted with Heliconea zingiberales and Cyperus haspan showed a carbamazepine removal efficiency lower than 10% although the system successfully reduced the effluent concentrations of the pharmaceutical sildenafil and the personal care product methylparaben (Delgado et al 2020). A strategy to improve emerging contaminant degradation in constructed wetlands could be the use of substrates endowed with adsorptive ability, such as manganese oxides which were indicated as enhancer of triclosan removal during microcosm experiments (Xie et al 2018).…”

Section: Constructed Wetlands For the Removal Of Emerging Contaminantsmentioning

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Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

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The rise of emerging contaminants in waters challenges the scientific community and water treatment stakeholders to design remediation techniques that are simple, practical, inexpensive, effective, and environmentally friendly. Emerging contaminants include antibiotics, hormones, illicit drugs, endocrine disruptors, cosmetics, personal care products, pesticides, surfactants, industrial products, microplastics, nanoparticles, and nanomaterials. Removing those contaminants is not easy because classical wastewater treatment systems are not designed to handle emerging contaminants, and contaminants often occur as traces in complex organo-mineral mixtures. Here, we review advanced treatments for the removal of emerging contaminants in wastewater, with focus on adsorption-oriented processes using non-conventional adsorbents such as cyclo-dextrin polymers, metal-organic frameworks, molecularly imprinted polymers, chitosan, and nanocellulose. We describe biological-based technologies for the degradation and removal of emerging contaminants. Then, we present advanced oxida-tion processes as the most promising strategies because of their simplicity and efficiency.

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Section: Constructed Wetlands For the Removal Of Emerging Contaminantsmentioning

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Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

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“…The category of emerging contaminants includes drugs and personal care products (PCPs), pesticides, solvents, fertilizer, household cleaning products, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons, hormones, among others (Rathi et al 2021). Frequently, the sewage containing these contaminants (at concentrations ranging from ng L −1 to mg L −1 ) (Delgado et al 2020) is discharged incorrectly in the soil or water bodies that supply cities, and the inefficiency of their depuration in traditional treatment processes contributes to their environmental presence and contamination (Christou et al 2019).…”

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Phytoremediation by ornamental plants: a beautiful and ecological alternative

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Environ Sci Pollut Res

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Phytoremediation is an eco-friendly and economical technology in which plants are used for the removal of contaminants presents in the urban and rural environment. One of the challenges of the technique is the proper destination of the biomass of plants. In this context, the use of ornamental plants in areas under contamination treatment improves landscape, serving as a tourist option and source of income with high added value. In addition to their high stress tolerance, rapid growth, high biomass production, and good root development, ornamental species are not intended for animal and human food consumption, avoiding the introduction of contaminants into the food web in addition to improving the environments with aesthetic value. Furthermore, ornamental plants provide multiple ecosystem services, and promote human well-being, while contributing to the conservation of biodiversity. In this review, we summarized the main uses of ornamental plants in phytoremediation of contaminated soil, air, and water. We discuss the potential use of ornamental plants in constructed buffer strips aiming to mitigate the contamination of agricultural lands occurring in the vicinity of sources of contaminants. Moreover, we underlie the ecological and health benefits of the use of ornamental plants in urban and rural landscape projects. This study is expected to draw attention to a promising decontamination technology combined with the beautification of urban and rural areas as well as a possible alternative source of income and diversification in horticultural production.

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“…and 6) papers must study CW technologies: for instance, surface-flow SF-CW (e.g., Berglund et al, 2014;Dordio et al, 2010), HSSF-CW (e.g., Matamoros et al, 2006;Delgado et al, 2020), VSSF-CW (e.g., de Oliveira et al, 2019) or H-CW (e.g., Matamoros et al, 2016;Vystavna et al, 2017) at laboratory-, mesocosm-, pilot-or full-scale. For the purposes of this review, a CW is defined as a low-cost engineered ecosystem designed for the improvement of wastewater quality, as previously described elsewhere .…”

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Attenuation of pharmaceuticals, nutrients and toxicity in a rural sewage lagoon system integrated with a subsurface filtration technology

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Occurrence and removal of pharmaceutical and personal care products using subsurface horizontal flow constructed wetlands

Cited by 70 publications

References 57 publications

Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

Removal of emerging contaminants from wastewater using advanced treatments. A review

Phytoremediation by ornamental plants: a beautiful and ecological alternative

Attenuation of pharmaceuticals, nutrients and toxicity in a rural sewage lagoon system integrated with a subsurface filtration technology

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