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We estimate that 1 × 1010 MPs are discharged into the catchment via treated and untreated wastewater annually, which constitutes up to 50% of the total MP catchment discharge. Thus, we conclude that the wastewater system represents a major environmental pathway for MPs into Mediterranean rivers with low dilution capacity.Pyrite cinder (PyC) is an iron-enriched solid waste material, which is an important iron resource for steel industry. However, the separation or extraction of iron minerals and heavy metals from PyC was ineffective, because of the fine disseminated granularity and the intergrowth between iron minerals and toxic heavy metals during high temperature roasting. In this paper, a novel method to extract copper and iron from the PyC by reduction roasting-leaching-magnetic separation was proposed. The effect of various parameters on the copper leaching behavior were studied, and the corresponding kinetics model was established. Under the optimized leaching conditions, the maximum copper leaching recovery of 82.18% was reached. A high-quality iron concentrate with Fe content of 65.58% and copper content of 0.17% was obtained subsequently from the leaching residuals through magnetic separation. It showed that the leaching process was controlled by mixed diffusion and chemical reaction, with a corresponding activation energy of 27.97 kJ/mol. The free copper oxide, combined copper oxide and secondary copper sulfide were extracted completely in H2SO4 solution. However, chalcopyrite as a form of primary copper sulfide dissolved partly. The leaching mechanism was confirmed by chemical phase and XPS analysis.Microbial populations responsible for arsenite [As(III)] detoxification were examined in aged refuse treated with 75 μM As(III) under semi-aerobic conditions. As(III) was rapidly oxidized to As(V) via microbial activity, and substantial As was fixed in the solid phase. The abundance of arsenite oxidase genes (aioA) was about four times higher in the moderate As(III) stressed treatment than in the untreated control. Network analysis of microbial community 16S rRNA genes based on MRT (random matrix theory) further illuminated details about microbe-microbe interactions, and showed six ecological clusters. A total of 166 "core" taxa were identified by within-module connectivity and among-module connectivity values. When compared with the control treatment without As(III), 12 putative keystone operational taxonomic units were positively correlated with As(III) oxidation, of which 10 of these were annotated to genera level. Eight genera were associated with As(III) detoxification Pseudomonas, Paenalcaligenes, Proteiniphilum, Moheibacter, Mobilitalea, Anaerosporobacter, Syntrophomonas and Pusillimonas. Most of those putative keystone taxa were rare species in landfill, which suggests that low-abundance taxa might significantly contribute to As(III) oxidation.There is little evidence on the short-term impact of fine particulate matter (PM2.5) on renal health, and the potential interactions and various influences of PM2.5 components on renal health have not been examined. We investigated whether short-term (≤28 days) ambient PM2.5 and 15 PM2.5 components were associated with serum uric acid (SUA), blood urea nitrogen (BUN), estimated glomerular filtration rate (eGFR), and odds of incident chronic kidney disease (CKD) using both mixed-effect and Bayesian kernel machine regression (BKMR) models in the Normative Aging Study. This analysis included 2466 study visits from 808 older males enrolled during 1998-2016 with available data. BKMR showed positive relationships of PM2.5 mixture with SUA and odds of CKD, and an inverse relationship with eGFR. In the 28-day exposure window, an interquartile range (IQR) increase in vanadium was associated with a 0.244-mg/dL higher SUA. IQR increases in sulfur and lead were associated with a 1.281- and 1.008-mL/min/1.73 m2 decrease in eGFR, respectively. The same change in sulfur was also associated with a 39% higher odds of CKD. Our findings provide solid evidence supporting short-term adverse effects of PM2.5 on renal health and further highlight that components from oil combustion and regional pollution may be major contributors.Arsenic calcium residue (ACR) generated from the As-bearing wastewater treatment is highly hazardous due to high content of available As, which was seeking a suitable method for safe disposal such as stabilization treatment. In this study, the stabilization of available As in ACR was performed by combined treatment with FeSO4 and H2SO4. After stabilization treatment, the As leaching concentrations extracted by China Standard Leaching Test (CSLT, HJ/T299-2007) decreased significantly from 162 mg/L to less than the Chinese regulation limit of 1.2 mg/L. And FeSO4-H2SO4 treated ACR could maintain good long-term stability even after cured for 365 days. The stabilization mechanism for available As in ACR using leaching tests, sequential extraction analysis, XPS, XRD, and SEM-EDS was investigated. H+ from H2SO4 and Fe(Ⅱ) hydrolysis was committed to the full release of available As. Reactive oxygen species (ROSs) produced from Fe(Ⅱ) oxygenation drove the oxidation of As(Ⅲ) to As(Ⅴ). The release As was stabilized by forming stable Fe-O-As complexes (FeAsO4·xFe(OH)3). Moreover, this study also presented an effective and feasible method for ACR disposal.The critical health risks caused by cadmium (Cd) via dietary exposure are commonly assessed by detecting Cd concentrations in foods. Differently, in this study, the bioaccessibility and bioavailability of Cd in major local harvests were introduced to assess the dietary exposure of local residents from a high-level environmental Cd region. The results indicated that certain Cd was released into the digestive juice after in vitro digestion with a bioaccessibility of 20-63% for rice and 3-32% for leafy vegetables, and the released portion was partially absorbed by Caco-2 cells with a bioavailability of 2-21% for rice and 0.2-13% for leafy vegetables. The results obtained from the toxicokinetic model revealed that the predicted urinary Cd values from the estimated daily intake (EDI) of Cd, which accounted for bioaccessibility and bioavailability, were consistent with the actual measured values, and the EDIs were considerably lower than the acceptable daily intake. This suggests that the bioaccessibility and bioavailability adjusted dietary Cd exposure should be more precise. The key issues addressed in our study implores that a potential health risk cannot be neglected in people with high consumption of rice from high-level zone.Precious metal (PM) retrievement from e-waste is of great significance for reducing virgin mining activity and promoting rare resource sustainability. However, current PM recycling methods rely mainly on caustic aqua regia or unstable sulfur-based ligand, which has caused severe environmental damage and process inefficiency. Here, we propose an environmentally friendly halide-regulated strategy, utilizing milder and renewable oxidant-cupric/ferric ion for facile PM dissolution. This is realized by the synergistic effect of enhanced oxidizing ability of Cu(II) and reduced oxidation potential of PM with halide addition. Electrochemical tests and leaching experiment results show that Cu(II)/Cu(I) redox potential experiences great change with bromide, increasing from 0.4 to 0.75 V. Fast corrosion feature was observed for Au in Cu(II)/Fe(III)-Br- and Pd in Cu(II)/Fe(III)-Cl-, and it can be accelerated by increasing oxidant and halide concentration. Our proposed strategy outperforms traditional methods with stable and fast dissolution, where 2.5 mol/L Br- is appropriate for Au dissolution. Moreover, selective dissolution of base metal, Pd/Ag, and Au can be achieved via ligand alteration and be further combined with electrodeposition technique for multi metal recovery and oxidant regeneration. This halide-regulated strategy can lead PM recycling from pollutive status towards environmentally friendly road.The purpose of this study was to investigate the heavy metal resistant bacteria (HMRB) community succession and bacterial activity in poultry manure (PM) composting. Five different concentration of chicken manure biochar (CMB) at 0%, 2%, 4%, 6%, and 10% on a dry weight basis was applied with initial feedstock (poultry manure + wheat straw) and indicated with T1, T2, T3, T4, and T5. In addition, high-throughput sequencing, principal coordinate analysis, and correlation analysis were used to analyze the evolution of HMRB communities during composting. The study indicated that crucial phyla were Proteobacteria, Actinobacteria, Bacteroidetes, and Firmicutes. The bacterial diversity in the CMB amendment treatment was higher than in the control treatment, and T4 treatment has the highest among all CMB applied treatments. Moreover, results from CCA indicated that T4 and T5 treatments quickly enters the high-temperature period which is maintained for 5 days, and is significantly positively correlated with Proteobacteria, and Actinobacteria. These findings offer insight into potential strategies to understand the succession of HMRBs during PM reuse. Overall, the above results show the addition of 6% biochar (T4) was potentially beneficial to enrich the abundance of bacterial community to improve composting environment quality and composting efficiency. In addition, effective to immobilized the heavy metals and HMRB in the end product.Recognition and excretion of metal ions play an important role in the diagnosis and treatment of various diseases and poisoning. Although copper (Cu) is a cofactor of many key enzymes in the human body, its accumulation caused by genetic ATP7B mutation or environmental pollution can lead to hepatotoxicity, renal failure, Wilson's disease, inflammation, and even Parkinson's disease (PD) and Alzheimer's disease (AD). Therefore, in this work, a difluoroboron curcumin derivative (DF-Cur) was used for the specific recognition of copper ions (Cu2+). DF-Cur could be further used to as a rapid diagnostic agent for the copper detection in cells and zebrafish at the nanomolar level. DF-Cur could significantly reduce the toxic damage caused by high Cu2+ dose. Inductively coupled plasma-mass spectrometry (ICP-MS) analysis indicated that DF-Cur could promote the excretion of copper ions in the urine and bile and reduce the accumulation of copper ions in vivo. Selleckchem ALK inhibitor In addition, DF-Cur could selectively detect cholesterol in the blood and adipose tissue in vivo by fluorescent staining. These results demonstrated that this molecule might represent a new and promising diagnostic and therapeutic agent to combat diseases related to copper ions accumulation.The natural attenuation of petroleum hydrocarbons is inseparable from the action of microorganisms, while the degradation methods and ecological strategies of microorganisms in petroleum-contaminated aquifers are still under debate. In the present study, 16 S rRNA sequencing and quantitative real-time polymerase chain reaction were used to assess the potential microbial degradation of petroleum hydrocarbons, and the ecological strategy of microorganisms under petroleum stress was analyzed through a co-occurrence network. The results showed that the microbial community in sediments exhibit higher efficiency and stability and stronger ecological function than that in groundwater. Keystone species coordinated with the community to execute ecosystem processes and tended to choose a K-strategy to survive, with the aquifer sediment being the main site of petroleum hydrocarbon degradation. Under natural conditions, the presence of petroleum hydrocarbons at concentrations higher than 126 μg kg-1 and 5557 μg kg-1 was not conducive to the microbial degradation of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons and alkanes, respectively.