Journal article
Pandemic COVID-19 ends but soil pollution increases: Impacts and a new approach for risk assessment
The Science of the total environment, Vol.890, 164070
10/09/2023
PMID: 37196949
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Abstract
For three years, a large amount of manufactured pollutants such as plastics, antibiotic and disinfectant has been released into the environment due to COVID-19. The accumulation of these pollutants in the environment has exacerbated the damage to the soil system. However, since the epidemic outbreak, the focus of researchers and public attention has consistently been on human health. It is noteworthy that studies conducted in conjunction with soil pollution and CIVID-19 represent only 4 % of all COVID-19 studies. In order to enhance researchers' and the public awareness of the seriousness on the COVID-19 derived soil pollution, we propose the viewpoint that “pandemic COVOD-19 ends but soil pollution increases” and recommend a whole-cell biosensor based new method to assess the environmental risk of COVID-19 derived pollutants. This approach is expected to provide a new way for environmental risk assessment of soils affected by contaminants produced from pandemic.
Details
- Title
- Pandemic COVID-19 ends but soil pollution increases: Impacts and a new approach for risk assessment
- Creators
- Xiaokai Zhang - Jiangnan UniversityMengyuan Jiang - Jiangnan UniversityLizhi He - Zhejiang A & F UniversityNabeel Khan Niazi - Southern Cross UniversityMeththika Vithanage - University of Sri JayewardenepuraBoling Li - Suzhou University of Science and TechnologyJie Wang - Jiangnan UniversityHamada Abdelrahman - Cairo UniversityVasileios Antoniadis - University of ThessalyJörg Rinklebe - University of WuppertalZhenyu Wang - Jiangnan UniversitySabry M. Shaheen - University of Wuppertal
- Publication Details
- The Science of the total environment, Vol.890, 164070
- Publisher
- Elsevier B.V
- Identifiers
- 991013118313302368
- Copyright
- © 2023 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
- Academic Unit
- Faculty of Science and Engineering
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article