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In this chapter, we review available data on the use of forest waste and by-products to remove pollutants. We focus on by-products from forest industry due to their proved efficacy for some specific contaminants and also due to the economic and social relevance of forest industry, as well as to the overall repercussion of recycling these waste materials when considering carbon storage and cycling at local and global scales. The treatment of both water and soil pollution is covered, also differencing among individual wastes and among specific pollutants, due to the various responses found regarding pollution removal and/or retention for different contaminants by using each by-product and on each environmental compartment.
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Funding: This work was supported by the Spanish Ministry of Economy and Competitiveness [grant numbers CGL2015-67333-C2-1-R and CGL2015-67333-C2-2-R]. It also received funds from the European Regional Development Fund (ERDF) (FEDER in Spain), being a complement to the previous grants, without additional grant number. D. Fernández-Calviño holds a Ramón y Cajal contract (RYC-2016-20411) financed by the Spanish Ministry of Economy, Industry and Competitiveness. M. Conde-Cid holds a pre-doctoral contract (FPU15/0280, Spanish Government). The sponsors had no involvement in the study design; in the collection, analysis, and interpretation of data; in the writing of the report, and in the decision to submit the article for publication.
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Núñez-Delgado, A. et al. (2020). By-Products from Forest Activities as Low-Cost Sorbents for Bioremediation of Effluents and Other Polluted Media. In: Shah, M., Banerjee, A. (eds) Combined Application of Physico-Chemical & Microbiological Processes for Industrial Effluent Treatment Plant. Springer, Singapore. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-0497-6_1
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