Constructed Wetlands for Industrial Wastewater Treatment

11Constructed Wetlands for Metals: Removal Mechanism and Analytical Challenges

Adam Sochacki^1,2,3, Asheesh K. Yadav⁴, Pratiksha Srivastava⁵, Naresh Kumar⁶, Mark Wellington Fitch⁷ and Ashirbad Mohanty⁸

¹Environmental Biotechnology Department, Faculty of Power and Environmental Engineering, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

²Centre for Biotechnology, Silesian University of Technology, Gliwice, Poland

³Department of Applied Ecology, Faculty of Environmental Sciences, Czech University of Life Sciences Prague, Kamýcká, Czech Republic

⁴Department of Environment and Sustainability, CSIR – Institute for Minerals and Materials Technology, Bhubaneswar, India

⁵Australian Maritime College (AMC), University of Tasmania, Launceston, Australia

⁶Department of Geological and Environmental Sciences, Stanford University, Stanford, USA

⁷Missouri University of Science and Technology, Civil Engineering, Rolla, USA

⁸Environmental Biotechnology, Division Helmholtz-Zentrum für Umweltforschung - UFZ, Leipzig, Germany

11.1 Sources of Metal Pollution and Rationale for Using Constructed Wetlands to Treat Metal-Laden Wastewater

Metal contamination of soils, sediments and waters occurs from diverse geogenic and anthropogenic sources. The anthropogenic sources of metal-impacted waters include various industries that discharge significant amounts of metals and metalloids in their waste streams, particularly electroplating, tanning and mining. For metal-impacted waters, due to limited financial budgets, simple ...