[HTML][HTML] Phytoremediation of heavy metals in soil and water: An eco-friendly, sustainable and multidisciplinary approach

SA Bhat, O Bashir, SAU Haq, T Amin, A Rafiq, M Ali… - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
Rapid industrialization, increased waste production and surge in agricultural activities,
mining, contaminated irrigation water and industrial effluents contribute to the contamination …

Current knowledge from heavy metal pollution in Chinese smelter contaminated soils, health risk implications and associated remediation progress in recent decades …

DM Xu, RB Fu, HQ Liu, XP Guo - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
The increasing generation of toxic heavy metals from smelting activities poses significant
threat to food safety, human health, and soil ecosystem, due to their unacceptable exposure …

Variations of soil microbial communities accompanied by different vegetation restoration in an open-cut iron mining area

J Deng, X Bai, Y Zhou, W Zhu, Y Yin - Science of the Total Environment, 2020 - Elsevier
Overexploitation of iron mining in China has caused serious environmental pollution.
Therefore, establishing a stable ecological restoration with vegetation in mining areas has …

The potential environmental risk implications of heavy metals based on their geochemical and mineralogical characteristics in the size-segregated zinc smelting slags

DM Xu, RB Fu, YH Tong, DL Shen, XP Guo - Journal of Cleaner Production, 2021 - Elsevier
Smelting slags must be classified as a typical hazardous solid, which represents the most
important point sources of potentially harmful elements. In addition, it can be known that …

Novel microbial consortia facilitate metalliferous immobilization in non-ferrous metal (loid) s contaminated smelter soil: Efficiency and mechanisms

M Li, J Yao, G Sunahara, J Hawari, R Duran, J Liu… - Environmental …, 2022 - Elsevier
Exposure to toxic metals from nonferrous metal (loid) smelter soils can pose serious threats
to the surrounding ecosystems, crop production, and human health. Bioremediation using …

Diversified effects of co-planting landscape plants on heavy metals pollution remediation in urban soil amended with sewage sludge

D Wu, X Yu, M Lai, J Feng, X Dong, W Peng… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Recycling sewage sludge (SS) as a soil amendment potentially causes soil heavy metals
(HMs) contamination. This study investigated the potential roles of landscape plants co …

Effect of different direct revegetation strategies on the mobility of heavy metals in artificial zinc smelting waste slag: Implications for phytoremediation

Y Luo, Z Zheng, P Wu, Y Wu - Chemosphere, 2022 - Elsevier
The establishment of vegetation cover is an important strategy to reduce wind and water
erosion at metal smelting waste slag sites. However, the mobility of heavy metals in waste …

Application of humic acid and hydroxyapatite in Cd-contaminated alkaline maize cropland: A field trial

L Han, Z Zhao, J Li, X Ma, X Zheng, H Yue… - Science of The Total …, 2023 - Elsevier
Soil quality is critical to the quality and safety of agricultural products, and remediation of
heavy metal contaminated soils is an urgent task to be implemented. This study applied …

Bioavailability assessment of heavy metals using various multi-element extractants in an indigenous zinc smelting contaminated site, southwestern China

JX Wang, DM Xu, RB Fu, JP Chen - International Journal of …, 2021 - mdpi.com
Despite recent studies have investigated the strong influences of smelting activities on
heavy metal contamination in the soil environment, little studies have been conducted on the …

Effect of particulate organic matter fractions on the distribution of heavy metals with aided phytostabilization at a zinc smelting waste slag site

Y Luo, Y Wu, J Shu, Z Wu - Environmental Pollution, 2019 - Elsevier
Particulate organic matter (POM) significantly affects the distribution of heavy metals in
contaminated soil. However, the effect of POM on the fate of heavy metals during in situ …