Effects of Inorganic Compounds on the Environment and Their Control: A Review

Abstract

Healthy environments are necessary of life but spontaneous population growth have required food for survival of life. Hence it pressed on the industrialization and urbanisation development so that various pollutants have been evolved which directly passed into the atmosphere. Among these heavy metals, salts, acids, bases, and oxides are the inorganic compounds that play a vital role in development of industrial and agricultural areas but are also responsible for increasing of pollutants in environment. Their tendency of bioaccumulation, toxicity and persistence characteristics caused extensive contamination in soil, air and water system. In this review author emphasised about the variety of inorganic pollutants, their production, environmental impact mechanism and their adverse effects on living organisms. Furthermore, it understands recent strategies about monitoring, mitigated and remediation, of process which controls the pollutions and their impact on environments such as adsorption, precipitation, phytoremediation, membrane filtration, and advanced oxidation processes. The review paper illustrated on the need for supportable industrial activities and policy involvements to mitigate environmental risks associated with inorganic pollutants.