book chapter · ACS symposium series
Heavy metal pollution represents a significant environmental challenge, largely stemming from human activities such as metal mining, agricultural practices, and industrial processes. These activities release heavy metal ions into the natural environment, contaminating soil, water, and air. The presence of these pollutants poses severe threats to human health, disrupts ecosystem functioning, and impacts the global environment. To address this widespread issue, a range of control strategies has been developed. These remediation methods encompass physical, biological, and chemical approaches, all designed to reduce metal concentrations in affected areas, prevent further contamination, and facilitate the restoration of degraded ecosystems. This work provides an overview of the sources, properties, and impacts of heavy metal pollution, alongside a discussion of various control techniques, highlighting their respective advantages and limitations.
Heavy metal pollution is a widespread environmental and health concern. Understanding its origins and the available methods for remediation is vital for protecting natural resources and human well-being. This knowledge helps inform policy, guide industrial practices, and support the development of effective strategies to mitigate environmental damage.
The abstract reviews various physical, biological, and chemical remediation methods for heavy metal pollution. This information is relevant for environmental engineering firms, waste management companies, and industrial sectors needing to manage or mitigate pollution. It provides foundational knowledge for selecting and implementing existing control technologies, suggesting it is applied research rather than a new, near-market product.
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Metal pollution is a serious environmental issue triggered by the release of heavy metal ions into the natural environment. Human activities such as metal mining, agriculture, and industrial processes have contributed significantly to the increase of metal pollution in the soil, water and air. Metal pollution poses grave dangers to human health, ecosystem functioning and the global environment. To control metal pollution, several strategies have been developed, comprising physical, biological and chemical methods. These remediation methods aim to reduce the concentration of metals in the environment, prevent further pollution, and restore degraded ecosystems. The goal of this chapter is to provide insight into the sources, properties and impacts of heavy metal pollution. Additionally, various identified techniques for controlling heavy metal pollution in the environment are briefly discussed, along with their advantages and limitations.
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DOI: 10.1021/bk-2023-1456.ch001
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