Different Technologies for Contaminated Soil Remediation: Hurdles and Perspectives

Abstract

Environmental Nexus Approach: Management of Water, Waste, and Soil addresses the linkages between environmental resources, such as water, waste, and soil, to deal with sustainable management of resources. This book presents an up-to- date and comprehensive collection of chapters contributed by prominent experts, in relevant fields of water, waste, and soil, working in the top institutions around the world. This book promotes the nexus approach as a policy-relevant means of environmental management by focusing on integrated management of water, waste, and soil resources. This book is divided into three sections, namely Section I: Environmental Nexus in Water/Wastewater Management, Section II: Environmental Nexus in Waste Management, and Section III: Environmental Nexus in Contaminated Soil Management. Section I consists of eight chapters covering research on water and wastewater treatment and distribution, wastewater collection/treatment/disposal, and microbial diversity analysis in wastewater treatment systems. This section also discusses advancements in conventional and modern waste treatment systems. As we know, water is essential for all known forms of life and is required for survival on Earth. As a result, an appropriate treatment train is required. However, while conventional domestic waste and wastewater treatment methods remove contaminants of concern up to a certain extent, they may cause environmental problems due to their poor efficacies. Such waste and wastewater must be treated suitably using emerging, low- cost, feasible, and environmentally friendly treatment processes or combinations of processes; these are fully addressed in this section. Section II consists of five chapters covering research on the behavior and fate of microplastics from municipal solid waste, on the toxicity assessment and bioremediation strategies of antibiotics and antibiotic resistance genes in organic wastes, and on the microbe-assisted enzymatic degradation of emerging contaminants like microplastics. Soil contamination has also generated great interest on a worldwide scale, particularly in waste disposal locations, industrial wasteland, and agricultural farmland. Section III consists of seven chapters covering the areas of emerging contaminants, like microplastics and polyaromatic hydrocarbons, and different technologies for contaminated soil remediation. In order to provide the theoretical basis for developing remediation technologies that can be a tool to establish a good environmental status, this book defines the current knowledge on water, waste, and soil contamination in relation to emerging contaminants, remediation strategies, improving approaches for remediation efficiency, and the prospects of this remediation technology. The book uses the selected studies to explore the use of the nexus approach in the integrated management of water, waste, and soil systems. Therefore, this book will serve as an invaluable source of basic knowledge on the environmental nexus between environmental resources such as water, waste, and soil to deal with sustainable management.