sustainable-treatment
Sustainable-treatment encompasses environmentally responsible approaches for managing plant health and disease while minimizing ecological impact and chemical inputs. This is critical to plant science because it bridges the need for productive cultivation with long-term ecosystem health and biodiversity preservation. Research in this field advances understanding of how plants can thrive through integrated management practices that support both agricultural productivity and environmental stewardship.
PubMed · 2026-02-13
Researchers are combining microalgae with conventional wastewater treatment systems to remove antibiotics more effectively while recovering nutrients and producing usable biomass—a sustainable solution to a growing environmental and public health threat.
Conventional sludge-based treatment systems fail to completely remove antibiotics from wastewater, allowing them to persist in the environment and spread antibiotic resistance genes
Microalgae-sludge hybrid systems remove antibiotics through multiple complementary mechanisms: biosorption, bioaccumulation, biodegradation, and physicochemical processes
Integrated microalgae-sludge systems simultaneously provide co-benefits including nutrient recovery, enhanced oxygen supply, and production of valorizable biomass