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Environmental-Friendly and Cost-Effective Agricultural Wastes for Heavy Metals and Toxicants Removal from Wastewater

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Cost-efficient Wastewater Treatment Technologies

Part of the book series: The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry ((HEC,volume 117))

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According to released data from the United Nations (UN), about 60% of the world’s populations could live in water-stressed situations by 2025. This could negatively affect many aspects of modern life and may also cause food and energy shortages leading to higher rates of illness. As world populations and their activities increase, wastewater generation increases as well. Releasing the toxic pollutants into water bodies has adverse consequences on human health, aquatic organisms, and ecosystems due to changing water properties making it unsuitable for consumption by humans, animals, and/or plants. In developing countries that suffer from acute shortage in water supply, remediation of the generated wastewater is a major issue since treated wastewater could be a valuable source of clean water. Treatment of wastewater can be physically, chemically, and biologically performed; however, the conventional methods have many disadvantages. Low-cost and environmental-friendly wastewater treatments can alleviate this issue and provide safe reusing of wastewater. Agricultural wastes can serve as natural adsorbents for pollutants from wastewater. A vast variety of ease regular adsorbents can be used for remediating sorts of toxins and pollutants from water and wastewater. Rice straw, cotton sticks, sugarcane bagasse, coconut husk, shells, etc., are examples of using agricultural wastes efficiently in wastewater treatment.

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  1. Central Laboratory of Environmental Studies, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

    Fathy Elbehiry

  2. Applied Plant Biology Department, University of Debrecen, Debrecen, Hungary

    Tarek Alshaal & Nevien Elhawat

  3. Department of Soil and Water, Faculty of Agriculture, Kafrelsheikh University, Kafr El-Sheikh, Egypt

    Tarek Alshaal

  4. Department of Environmental and Biological Sciences, Faculty of Home Economic, Al-Azhar University, Tanta, Egypt

    Nevien Elhawat & Heba Elbasiouny

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Elbehiry, F., Alshaal, T., Elhawat, N., Elbasiouny, H. (2021). Environmental-Friendly and Cost-Effective Agricultural Wastes for Heavy Metals and Toxicants Removal from Wastewater. In: Nasr, M., Negm, A.M. (eds) Cost-efficient Wastewater Treatment Technologies. The Handbook of Environmental Chemistry, vol 117. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/698_2021_786

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