Afonso Henrique da Silva Júnior , Carlos Rafael Silva de Oliveira , Tarcisio Wolff Leal , António Benjamim Mapossa , Juliane Fiates , Antônio Augusto Ulson de Souza , Selene Maria de Arruda Guelli Ulson de Souza , Adriano da Silva
{"title":"Organochlorine pesticides remediation techniques: Technological perspective and opportunities","authors":"Afonso Henrique da Silva Júnior , Carlos Rafael Silva de Oliveira , Tarcisio Wolff Leal , António Benjamim Mapossa , Juliane Fiates , Antônio Augusto Ulson de Souza , Selene Maria de Arruda Guelli Ulson de Souza , Adriano da Silva","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100098","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100098","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Organochlorine pesticides have been widely used in agriculture to control agricultural pests. Although effective in controlling pests, organochlorine pesticides present numerous hazards to ecosystems and human health due to their persistence in the environment, bioaccumulation, and toxicity. Scientific studies have shown that organochlorines may be associated with endocrine and neurological problems. Several strategies have been developed to apply treatment techniques to remove pesticides from various ecosystems, both aquatic and terrestrial. Physicochemical and biological methods have revealed other potentialities for remediation of aqueous environments contaminated with organochlorine pesticides. In addition, combined processes using different approaches have been highlighted as efficient alternatives to mitigate the impacts of agrochemicals on the environment, e.g., physical technique followed by a biological process. However, there are still numerous gaps that need to be explored and elucidated. Therefore, this review addressed the impacts of organochlorine pesticides on ecosystems and some treatment techniques used to remove agrochemicals from water. Furthermore, new findings, technological perspectives, and opportunities on this subject were presented and discussed.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100098"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000242/pdfft?md5=8af23a0ec38ba4a9457d4bfc3140910d&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000242-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138769789","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Yanira Baldovinos, Precious Obiako, Clancy Collom, Christie M. Sayes
{"title":"A vape condensate collection method for degradant identification and toxicity screening","authors":"Yanira Baldovinos, Precious Obiako, Clancy Collom, Christie M. Sayes","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100099","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100099","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Since 2007, the market for e-cigarettes has resulted in increasing demand for newer technologies and flavorings contributing to the complexity of these products. As a result, methodologies for e-cigarette aerosol capturing and testing have become a necessity in understanding the toxicities surrounding e-cigarette products. This study tests an alternative aerosol capture method followed by toxicity testing of the sample collected on a lung in vitro model.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100099"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-15","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000254/pdfft?md5=5f216618283c668952cd8167ecc21f45&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000254-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"139018828","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Håkon A. Langberg , Hans Peter H. Arp , Gabriela Castro , Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos , Heidi Knutsen
{"title":"Recycling of paper, cardboard and its PFAS in Norway","authors":"Håkon A. Langberg , Hans Peter H. Arp , Gabriela Castro , Alexandros G. Asimakopoulos , Heidi Knutsen","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100096","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100096","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been used in paper products since the 1960s. PFAS emissions during the life cycle of these products have been substantial sources of these substances to the environment. Here, a total of 37 PFAS were analysed in 13 paper products sampled in 2021, for which some were made of virgin paper and others recycled paper, including food contact materials (FCM), packaging, and a notebook. In addition, different fractions of the recycling process of corrugated paper and board were sampled at a Norwegian cardboard recycling plant and analysed for the same PFAS, to get an overview of PFAS in the recycling stream of these materials in Norway. PFAS were found in recycled paper and board, indicating PFAS can be a non-intentionally added substance (NIAS) in recycled paper products. Sum of targeted PFAS detected in paper products (including products made of virgin and recycled materials) ranged between 0.4 and 971 µg kg<sup>−1</sup>, dominated by SAmPAP diester and 6:2 FTS (0–62% and 0–98%, respectively). The sum of targeted PFAS in returned corrugated paper and board in Norway is at least 32 kg per year (6 mg per capita per year). Recycling is important to ensure sustainability. As part of the broad PFAS restriction in Europe, PFAS are to be restricted in paper and board materials. Thus, lower levels of PFAS entering the recycling stream are expected in the future. Monitoring is necessary to assess reductions of PFAS in the paper waste stream due to PFAS regulations in Europe.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100096"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-14","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000229/pdfft?md5=d86c1c260f87f7247fc717283dec3fda&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000229-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138839552","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Anna Magdalene Brun Hansen , Rikke Poulsen , Louise von Gersdorff Jørgensen , Martin Hansen
{"title":"Polyquaternium polymers cause inflammatory response and alterations of the lipidome in Danio rerio larvae","authors":"Anna Magdalene Brun Hansen , Rikke Poulsen , Louise von Gersdorff Jørgensen , Martin Hansen","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100095","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100095","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Polyquaternium polymers are widely used in various applications, such as personal care products and wastewater treatment plants, and eventually end up in the aquatic environment. While polymers have been perceived of low toxicological concern due to their size, several studies have pointed towards water-soluble cationic polymers being toxic towards aquatic organisms – and that the toxicity largely is determined by the polymer charge density. The present study investigated the polyquaternium toxicological mechanism of action throughout lipidomic analysis and changes in immune-gene expression (qPCR) of zebrafish larvae exposed continuously to two water-soluble polymers; a high charge density polyquaternium-6 and a low charge density polyquaternium-10, for 5 and 12 days upon fertilization. The results showed that the investigated polyquaterniums cause both inflammatory responses and significant alterations of the zebrafish larvae lipidome. Depending on polyquaternium polymer and larvae development stage, the gene expression showed an inflammatory response (e.g. significant up-regulation of <em>il8</em>, <em>il1β</em> and <em>tnfα</em>) in the exposed zebrafish. Alterations of the lipidome were additionally observed, with severe depletion of lipids (e.g. lyso-glycerophosphocholines and ceramides) in the 12 days old larvae exposed to high charge density polymer. The findings furthermore support a hypothetical mechanism of action to be non-specific and lethality potentially to be narcosis-like driven.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100095"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-12-07","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000217/pdfft?md5=9d3433fbad769174ad36916e21de8aff&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000217-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138619618","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Recent advances of Copper- BTC metal-organic frameworks for efficient degradation of organic dye-polluted wastewater: Synthesis, mechanistic insights and future outlook","authors":"Saptarshi Roy, Jnyanashree Darabdhara, Md. Ahmaruzzaman","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100094","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100094","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Water borne emerging pollutants represents a significant challenge confronting the modern society. As a result of excessive use of dyes and pigments by the textile and other industries, substantial amount of these toxic and recalcitrant substances are widely dispersed into the aquatic sources that may raise serious health issues to all life forms besides causing potential disruption to the ecosystem. Treatments of these hazardous and non-biodegradable organic contaminants in wastewater effluents have become a focal point for researchers dedicated to environmental remediation. Notably, Metal organic frameworks (MOFs) and their composites have been reported to be promising materials for tackling such challenges. This review is dedicated to provide a concise overview by consolidating the diverse beneficial attributes of Cu-BTC MOF rendering it as a versatile material with applications spanning diverse domains, focusing on the reactivity, the role of the metal ion and its recent potential for addressing the elimination of toxic textile dye wastes from the wastewater effluent. Furthermore, it also documents the underlying mechanistic pathway governing the degradation mechanism and the superior electron transport property of Cu ̶ BTC, besides painting in detail the existing limitations that hinder their applicability at an industrial platform. Moreover, a set of future research outlooks serving as a roadmap for exploring the potentiality of Cu ̶ BTC MOFs have also been presented.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100094"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-23","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000205/pdfft?md5=03140f376cdb280fc9234d3f37f5b7eb&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000205-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"138501249","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Understanding arsenic toxicity: Implications for environmental exposure and human health","authors":"Ravidarshdeep kaur , Atul Garkal , Lopmudra Sarode , Priyanka Bangar , Tejal Mehta , Dhirendra Pratap Singh , Rakesh Rawal","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100090","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100090","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>Arsenic is a trace element and a metalloid which is prominently known as an environmental hazard. At present, rising health apprehensions are linked to emanating from a wide array of industrial, chemical, residential, agricultural, and technological sources, leading to extensive pollution of water, soil, and air ecosystems including flora, fauna and humans. It poses significant harm to biological organisms upon acute and chronic exposure. In this review, we delve into the reported experimental data that elaborates on arsenic as a toxicant, with particular emphasis on its occurrence, metabolism and diverse molecular mechanisms involved. It also includes the major molecular mechanisms leading to systemic toxicity with special emphasis on shedding light on the intricate ways it disrupts the nervous system.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"5 ","pages":"Article 100090"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-04","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000163/pdfft?md5=834a86ea1d64b7090a225e5b2f8fa1f7&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000163-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"135455184","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
J. S. Wallace, Dulan Edirisinghe, S. Seyedi, Haley Noteboom, Micah Blate, Derya Dursun Balci, Mohammad Abu-Orf, R. Sharp, Jeanette A. Brown, D. Aga
{"title":"Burning questions: Current practices and critical gaps in evaluating removal of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) during pyrolysis treatments of biosolids.","authors":"J. S. Wallace, Dulan Edirisinghe, S. Seyedi, Haley Noteboom, Micah Blate, Derya Dursun Balci, Mohammad Abu-Orf, R. Sharp, Jeanette A. Brown, D. Aga","doi":"10.2139/ssrn.4369128","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2139/ssrn.4369128","url":null,"abstract":"Concerns surrounding potential health and environmental impacts of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) are growing at tremendous rates because adverse health impacts are expected with trace-level exposures. Extreme measures are required to mitigate potential PFAS contamination and minimize exposures. Extensive PFAS use results in the release of diverse PFAS species from domestic, industrial, and municipal effluents to wastewater, which partition to biosolids throughout secondary treatment. Biosolids generated during municipal wastewater treatment are a major environmental source of PFAS due to prevailing disposal practices as fertilizers. Pyrolysis is emerging as a viable, scalable technology for PFAS removal from biosolids while retaining nutrients and generating renewable, raw materials for energy generation. Despite early successes of pyrolysis in PFAS removal, significant unknowns remain about PFAS and transformation product fates in pyrolysis products and emissions. Applicable PFAS sampling methods, analytical workflows, and removal assessments are currently limited to a subset of high-interest analytes and matrices. Further, analysis of exhaust gases, particulate matter, fly ashes, and other pyrolysis end-products remain largely unreported or limited due to cost and sampling limitations. This paper identifies critical knowledge gaps on the pyrolysis of biosolids that must be addressed to assess the effectiveness of PFAS removal during pyrolysis treatment.","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"4 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"45304781","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Utilization of phosphogypsum in phenol removal from coking wastewater","authors":"Dmytro Yelatontsev","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100089","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100089","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The paper presents the results of the application of raw phosphogypsum as an adsorbent for the preliminary treatment of coke-chemical wastewater with an initial concentration of phenol 395 mg/L. Studies in batch mode have proved that phenol removal is promoted by increasing the adsorbent dose and effluent temperature, the optimal phosphogypsum dose was found to be 5 g/L. The adsorption kinetics follows a pseudo-first-order model, the maximum adsorption capacity of phosphogypsum reaches 85 mg/g, which provides purification from phenol at the level of 85–90%. The process is spontaneous and endothermic. In column mode, at an effluent flow rate of 3 mL/min and the height of the fixed bed of 15 mm adsorbent dynamic capacity reached 124 mg/g. The obtained data indicate that raw phosphogypsum, available in huge quantities in the dumps of phosphoric acid plants, can be effectively used for the pretreatment of phenolic wastewater before biological treatment.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100089"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000151/pdfft?md5=1cff6d96123d0f2dd933115837d7dd63&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000151-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91986616","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Prachi Siddharth Bagde , Rini Mathew , Roshna Jose , K. Ranjeet , V.G. Nikhil
{"title":"Characteristics and risk assessment of microplastic mediated heavy metal transport in black clam Villorita cyprinoides from a Ramsar wetland of South India","authors":"Prachi Siddharth Bagde , Rini Mathew , Roshna Jose , K. Ranjeet , V.G. Nikhil","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100092","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100092","url":null,"abstract":"<div><p>The synergetic and interactive effects of microplastics (MPs) as potential carriers of pollutants and pathogens have a manifold impact on human health and aquatic biota. The present study delineates the role of MPs in transporting heavy metals to the black clam, <em>Villorita cyrpinoides</em> of Vembanad Lake in South India. MPs in water (3.41 ± 1.87 items/L), sediment (154.6 ± 45.4 items/kg) and within clams (0.87 ± 0.34 items/g tissue) showed considerable variation based on their physical and chemical characteristics, which in turn reflected its differential potential to carry heavy metals. Though the levels of heavy metals (Al, Fe, Mn, Zn, Cr, Pb) within the clam and those carried by MPs were less than the hazardous limits, the concentration of Cd within the clam and MP was found to have a positive correlation. Though the present levels of heavy metal pollution in the lake do not pose a direct threat to humans, anthropogenic interventions and reduced water flow have turned the lower reaches of the lake into a sink of heavy metals. Hence with MP concentration increasing it is worth investigating how their future interactions with heavy metals and other pollutants would pose a risk to living organisms.</p></div>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"4 ","pages":"Article 100092"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666911023000187/pdfft?md5=d23d499b9715fbdbda2652daad3f8eeb&pid=1-s2.0-S2666911023000187-main.pdf","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"91985831","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Revising the EPA Dilution-Attenuation Soil Screening Model for PFAS.","authors":"Mark L Brusseau, Bo Guo","doi":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100077","DOIUrl":"10.1016/j.hazl.2023.100077","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Per and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) have been shown to be ubiquitous in the environment, and one issue of critical concern is the leaching of PFAS from soil to groundwater. The risk posed by contaminants present in soil is often assessed in terms of the anticipated impact to groundwater through the determination of soil screening levels (SSLs). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established a soil screening model for determining SSLs. However, the model does not consider the unique retention properties of PFAS and, consequently, the SSLs established with the model may not represent the actual levels that are protective of groundwater quality. The objective of this work is to revise the standard EPA SSL model to reflect the unique properties and associated retention behavior of PFAS. Specifically, the distribution parameter used to convert soil porewater concentrations to soil concentrations is revised to account for adsorption at the air-water interface. Example calculations conducted for PFOS and PFOA illustrate the contrasting SSLs obtained with the revised and standard models. A comparison of distribution parameters calculated for a series of PFAS of different chain length shows that the significance of air-water interfacial adsorption can vary greatly as a function of the specific PFAS. Therefore, the difference between SSLs calculated with the revised versus standard models will vary as a function of the specific PFAS, with greater differences typically observed for longer-chain PFAS. It is anticipated that this revised model will be useful for developing improved SSLs that can be used to enhance site investigations and management for PFAS-impacted sites.</p>","PeriodicalId":93463,"journal":{"name":"Journal of hazardous materials letters","volume":"1 1","pages":""},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2023-11-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10662647/pdf/","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"54420984","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"OA","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}