Phytoremediation of Copper and Zinc Contaminated Soil around Textile Industries using <i>Bryophyllum pinnatum</i> Plant

Abstract

Pollution of the environmental segments due to anthropogenic activities is inevitable. Different physical, chemical, and other approaches were suggested and also applied to improve the condition of the contaminated soil with mixed results. Contamination of heavy metal exposes a crucial health concern as metals might be transferred to human beings along with livestock (Dubey et al., 2018). Heavy metals such as Cd, Cu, Pb, Cr, and Hg are considered as prime contaminants in the environment, specifically, where there is a vast amount of anthropogenic load (Nagajyoti et al., 2010). The heavy metals readily found in the textile effluent are As, Cd, Cu, Fe, Hg, Cr, and Ni (Nagajyoti et al., 2010). Heavy metals like cadmium (Cd), copper (Cu), lead (Pb), nickel (Ni), and chromium (Cr) are extensively used for the manufacturing of textile dyes. Different heavy metals are linked with the configuration of dyes. When textile effluents arrive in the soil; there are possibilities of soil to come into contact with metal. Watering the agricultural lands by using different industrial wastewaters may alter the chemical, physical and biological properties of soil (Mani et al., 2019). Cu, Pb, and Cr were the prominent heavy metal from the dyeing, glass, and textile industry, at Tangail, Bangladesh (Tusher et al., 2018).Phytoremediation refers to a combination of plant-based technologies that utilize the naturally occurring plants as well as genetically engineered

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