Improvement of marine environmental pollution using eco-system: decomposition and recovery of endocrine disrupting chemicals by marine phyto- and zooplanktons
a Department of Chemistry, Kyoto University of Education, Fushimi-ku, Kyoto 612-8522, Japan
b Department of Nutritional Science, Okayama Prefectural University, Soja, Okayama 719-1197, Japan
Abstract:
The decomposition and the recovery of endocrine disrupting chemicals (EDCs) using marine phytoplankton were demonstrated as one of the possible bioremediation methods. Bis(2-ethylhexyl)phthalate and bisphenol A tended to gradually accumulate into the plankton cells during incubation. Furthermore, the recovery of bisphenol A from the synthetic seawater was achieved using a marine pollutant collecting model (eco-system) that combined phyto- and zooplanktons.