Toxic heavy metals: impact on the environment and human health, and treatment with conducting organic polymers, a review
| Autor: | A.K.D. Diaw, Mohamed Lamine Sall, Snezana Efremova Aaron, Diariatou Gningue-Sall, Jean-Jacques Aaron |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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Pollution
Polymers Health Toxicology and Mutagenesis media_common.quotation_subject chemistry.chemical_element 010501 environmental sciences 01 natural sciences Metals Heavy Humans Environmental Chemistry Water pollution 0105 earth and related environmental sciences media_common Cadmium business.industry Aquatic ecosystem Fossil fuel General Medicine Contamination Mercury (element) Incineration Heavy Metal Poisoning chemistry Environmental chemistry Environmental science Environmental Pollution business |
| Zdroj: | Environmental Science and Pollution Research. 27:29927-29942 |
| ISSN: | 1614-7499 0944-1344 |
| DOI: | 10.1007/s11356-020-09354-3 |
| Popis: | Water pollution by heavy metals has many human origins, such as the burning of fossil fuels, exhaust gases of vehicles, mining, agriculture, and incineration of solid and liquid wastes. Heavy metals also occur naturally, due to volcanoes, thermal springs activity, erosion, infiltration, etc. This water contamination is a threat for living beings because most heavy metals are toxic to humans and to aquatic life. Hence, it is important to find effective techniques for removing these contaminants in order to reduce the level of pollution of the natural waters. In this work, we have reviewed the toxicity of several heavy metals (mercury, lead, cadmium, chromium, nickel), their impact on the environment and human health, and the synthesis and characterization methods of conducting organic polymers (COPs) utilized for the removal of heavy metals from the environment. Therefore, this review was essentially aimed to present recent works and methods (2000-2020) on the environmental impact and toxicity of heavy metals and on the removal of toxic heavy metals, using chemically and/or electrochemically synthesized COPs. We have also stressed the great interest of COPs for the removal of toxic heavy metals from waters. |
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