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RSC Adv. 2025 May 20;15(21):16690-16707. doi: 10.1039/d5ra01906k. eCollection 2025 May 15.
ABSTRACT
The pervasive presence of endocrine-disrupting chemicals (EDCs), particularly progesterone, in aquatic ecosystems poses significant ecological and human health risks, necessitating the development of sustainable and efficient removal strategies. This study introduces an innovative, eco-friendly approach utilizing non-edible reishi mushroom (Ganoderma lucidum) and its calcined form as natural adsorbents for progesterone removal while simultaneously exploring the potential of the formed composites as sustainable agricultural amendments. The adsorption efficiency of both reishi mushroom powder and its calcined form was systematically optimized under varying pH, adsorbent dose, temperature, and contact time conditions. The adsorption capacities of reishi mushroom and its calcined form for progesterone were assessed using nine non-linear isotherm models. Among these, the Langmuir and Freundlich models provided the best fit to the experimental data (R 2 ∼ 0.99), demonstrating high adsorption capacities of 90.52 mg g-1 for reishi mushroom and 118.10 mg g-1 for calcined reishi mushroom under optimal conditions (pH 3, 25 °C, 0.1 g and 0.075 g doses, respectively) following pseudo-second-order and mixed-order kinetic models. Both materials were fully characterized before and after the adsorption process using XRD, FTIR, and SEM techniques. Thermodynamic analysis revealed the process to be exothermic, spontaneous, and highly ordered, driven by hydrophobic interactions and van der Waals forces. Molecular docking analysis shows that ganoderic acid A and progesterone bind strongly to key plant hormone receptors (GID1, TIR1, BRI1), indicating their potential to enhance plant growth by influencing gibberellin, auxin, and brassinosteroid signaling pathways. Beyond environmental remediation, the formed composites exhibited exceptional potential in enhancing agricultural productivity. Composite treatments, particularly progesterone adsorbed on calcined reishi mushroom, significantly improved seed germination rates (95%), shoot-to-root elongation (2.5 : 1), and overall plant growth (39 cm height, 200 g fresh weight). Soil quality assessments revealed increased organic matter content and improved fertility, highlighting the dual benefit of these adsorbents in environmental remediation and sustainable agriculture. The greenness profile of the proposed method, evaluated using NEMI, AGP, and Modified GAPI metrics, further underscores its eco-sustainability, with an eco-scale score of 94 and a BAGI blueness score of 75, affirming its alignment with green analytical chemistry principles. This study introduces a novel, cost-effective, and eco-friendly method for progesterone removal while pioneering the use of waste-derived adsorbents in circular agriculture. By utilizing reishi mushroom and its calcined form, this research addresses both water contamination and sustainable farming, advancing eco-friendly technologies.
PMID:40395785 | PMC:PMC12089978 | DOI:10.1039/d5ra01906k
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It was early January when Blake Shook realized the bees were in trouble. Shook, the CEO of a beekeeping outfit called Desert Creek, was coordinating California’s annual almond pollination, the largest such event in the world. The affair requires shipping nearly 2 million honeybee colonies from all across the country to California orchards. But this year, Shook’s contacts were coming up short. Their bees were all dead.
From June 2024 to February 2025, the United States suffered its worst commercial honeybee crash on record. An estimated 62 percent of commercial colonies perished, according to a survey by the nonprofit Project Apis m. As Shook and other beekeepers were struggling to fill their contracts, they notified the U.S. Department of Agriculture, which promptly collected samples of pollen, wax, honey, and dead bees from both live and lost colonies to analyze at its five bee-research laboratories around the country. The USDA has long been the country’s frontline response to honeybee die-offs, using its labs to characterize threats to the insects.
But this year, before the researchers could uncover what exactly had killed the bees, the Trump administration’s sweeping federal funding cuts scrambled the operation. Now scientists, farmers, and beekeepers alike are racing to recover and prevent the next massive die-off before it’s too late.
Honeybee colonies in the U.S. have occupied a precarious position for nearly two decades. Since official recordkeeping started in 2007, approximately 40 percent of honeybee colonies kept by both commercial and hobbyist beekeepers have died off each winter. Keepers have still managed to keep the total U.S. honeybee population relatively stable by breeding new queens, and by relying on the USDA to quickly identify what caused any given die-off so they can prevent it from happening the next year.
Quickly is the operative word. Identifying which killer—or, more likely, combination of killers—is responsible for a colony’s death is crucial for beekeepers as they restock and adjust for new threats. They need to know whether they should provide their bees with supplemental food, or treat their gear with chemicals to kill specific parasites, viruses, or bacteria. “Until they have results from the samples that were taken, they don’t know if it’s safe to rebuild with that equipment,” Danielle Downey, the executive director of Project Apis m., told me.
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After a major winter die-off, the USDA usually returns its verdict by late March or early April, Downey said. But several beekeepers and the American Beekeeping Federation told me they are still waiting on this year’s report. “It’s a little frightening,” Russell Heitkam, a commercial beekeeper in Northern California, told me. In addition to delivering its report on a given year’s die-off, the agency offers financial aid for beekeepers to offset the costs of replacing their stock during years with particularly high losses. But Heitkam and Shook both told me that after they applied for the funds this year, they received a notice from the USDA’s Farm Service Agency that said they should expect to be paid less than usual. If beekeepers don’t have answers—or money—before summer begins, they will have missed their window to rebuild.
The Department of Agriculture seems hard-pressed to return answers in time. In February, the agency approached Cornell University and asked its bee experts to take on pesticide testing “due to government staffing cuts and the high expense involved with testing samples for pesticides,” according to a university press release. The university was able to take on the job because it already had the necessary equipment, and because of a $60,000 donation from an anonymous donor. Scott McArt, the program director of Cornell’s Dyce Lab for Honey Bee Studies, told me that he and his team are close to wrapping up their analysis, but they will need to run their results by the USDA before they can be shared. (A university spokesperson declined to comment further on how the partnership was worked out.)
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Sci Rep. 2025 May 20;15(1):17426. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-02272-9.
ABSTRACT
This study investigates the utilization of thermally treated drinking water treatment sludge (DWTS) as an eco-friendly adsorbent for the removal of Congo Red (CR) and Crystal Violet (CV) dyes from wastewater, aligning with circular economy principles. The research evaluates the adsorption performance of DWTS by analyzing various factors, including pH, contact time, adsorbent dosage and initial dye concentration. Kinetic and isotherm studies were conducted to elucidate the performance of the adsorbent and investigate the adsorption mass transfer mechanisms. Characterization of the DWTS adsorbent was performed using Energy Dispersive Spectrometry (EDS), Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM), Zeta potential, point of zero charge, Brunauer-Emmett-Teller (BET), and Fourier Transform Infrared Spectroscopy (FTIR) analysis. The results revealed that the optimal conditions for dye removal were established at 120 min, 2 g adsorbent dosage, 50 mg/L dye concentration, pH5 and pH9, achieving 94.3% and 86.9% for CR and CV, respectively. The dye adsorption equilibrium data fitted well to the Langmuir isotherm model with monolayer maximum adsorption capacity of 21.368 and 10.1419 mg/g for CR and CV dye, respectively. In addition, the kinetic studies showed rapid sorption dynamics following a First-order kinetic model. Moreover, the intra particle diffusion and Elovich models exhibited high correlation coefficient values indicating a contribution of physical and chemical adsorption process. These findings suggest that DWTS is a cost-effective and viable alternative for dye removal in wastewater treatment, with implications for sustainable waste management practices. Additionally, recommendations for the safe disposal of spent adsorbents are discussed, highlighting potential applications in construction materials.
PMID:40394094 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-025-02272-9
J Environ Manage. 2025 May 19;387:125834. doi: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125834. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
The construction sector is one of the major drivers of economic development. However, it is also one of the most significant contributors to environmental degradation due to excessive resource consumption and waste generation. As Türkiye continues rapid urbanization, integrating Circular Economy (CE) principles into the construction sector becomes vital for achieving sustainability. This study investigates the awareness, perceived importance, and implementation of eleven CE strategies -such as refuse, reuse, recycle, and redesign- among architecture and construction professionals. A quantitative survey was conducted across Türkiye and analyzed using K-Medoids and DBSCAN clustering techniques to identify patterns across the three dimensions. The results indicate high awareness and perceived importance across nearly all CE principles. Nevertheless, a notable gap remains in their actual application, particularly for recycling, which, despite being well-known, is poorly implemented in practice. This gap is attributed to structural barriers such as inadequate infrastructure, technical capacity, and weak regulatory frameworks. The findings underscore the need to move from theoretical understanding to practical application. Therefore, policy interventions, targeted training programs, and industry infrastructure development are recommended to bridge the implementation gap. This study contributes to the global sustainability discourse by offering empirical insights and actionable recommendations tailored to the Turkish construction sector.
PMID:40393123 | DOI:10.1016/j.jenvman.2025.125834
ChemSusChem. 2025 May 20:e202500210. doi: 10.1002/cssc.202500210. Online ahead of print.
ABSTRACT
Plastics are indispensable in daily life, with both production and waste generation increasing annually. As the world strives for net-zero emissions, advancing plastic recycling technologies has become a global priority. Pyrolytic liquefaction is a promising approach for recovering chemical feedstocks, including fuel fractions, from waste plastics, potentially substituting petroleum resources. Since the 1970s, research on pyrolytic liquefaction has progressed globally, and several industrial-scale plants are now in operation. However, to accelerate the transition to a circular economy, it is crucial to bridge the knowledge gap between lab-scale research and industrial-scale implementation of pyrolysis-liquefaction technologies. This review provides a comprehensive analysis of the current state of plastic recycling, the progress and challenges in cutting-edge lab-scale research on pyrolytic liquefaction, alongside the latest trends in industrial-scale liquefaction projects. It reveals that pyrolytic liquefaction of a wide range of plastics-including halogenated plastics and poly(ethylene terephthalate)-has been extensively studied at the laboratory level. In contrast, industrial-scale operations often focus on more common, easily pyrolyzed plastics and generally avoid the use of catalysts. This highlights the urgent need to develop robust, reusable, and cost-effective catalysts, as well as optimized process designs, to expand the range of plastic feedstocks suitable for industrial-scale pyrolysis plants.
PMID:40393922 | DOI:10.1002/cssc.202500210
Huan Jing Ke Xue. 2025 May 8;46(5):3189-3199. doi: 10.13227/j.hjkx.202405273.
ABSTRACT
Waste sludge is an important carrier of antibiotic resistance genes （ARGs） and an important place for the enrichment of microplastics （MPs）. To explore the impacts of typical MPs on sludge recycling and harmless disposal, the effects of polyamide （PA）, polyethylene （PE）, and polypropylene （PP） MPs on the methanogenesis efficiency of anaerobic digestion were investigated. Meanwhile, based on metagenomic sequencing, the effects of MPs on ARGs, mobile genetic elements （MGEs）, microbial community structure, and host bacteria during anaerobic digestion were analyzed. The results showed that PA-MPs, PE-MPs, and PP-MPs increased the distribution of methane production by 2.2%, 22.3%, and 28.8%, respectively. MPs promoted methanation by improving the dissolution and hydrolysis efficiency of organic matter, and the enrichment of hydrogenotrophic methanogens by PP-MPs further improved the methanogenic efficiency. PA-MPs contributed to the removal of ARGs, while PE-MPs and PP-MPs had adverse effects on the reduction of ARGs. Horizontal gene transfer mediated by integron and insertion sequences was an important factor in the spread of ARGs. Proteobacteria was the key host leading to the diffusion of ARGs. The removal of pathogens from Bacteroidetes by anaerobic digestion contributed to the reduction of ARGs. The selective enrichment or inhibition of Arenimonas, Acinetobacter, Actinobacillus, Nitrospira, and other important host bacteria by MPs was the major cause for the difference in the removal effect of ARGs.
PMID:40390443 | DOI:10.13227/j.hjkx.202405273
Sci Rep. 2025 May 20;15(1):17483. doi: 10.1038/s41598-025-90379-4.
ABSTRACT
Lithium has become one of the most strategic materials in the industry, given its wide use for the realization of efficient energy storage devices and for improving the chemical and physical characteristics of advanced ceramic and glass materials. Its widespread use in the last decades has also posed problems for its recovery and recycling, mostly from exhaust Li-ion batteries, which are mechanically treated to obtain the black mass. The black mass is a carbon-based material derived from the cathodic and anodic components of the batteries, containing several metals, as for example cobalt and nickel, along with lithium in varying quantities. Therefore, it is important to develop fast and accurate techniques for determining the black mass composition. This information is also essential for optimizing the extraction processes of lithium or other metals from the black mass. In this paper, we employ automated data processing using an Artificial Neural Network (ANN) to analyze spectra acquired from black mass equivalent materials with a commercial hand-held Laser-Induced Breakdown Spectroscopy (LIBS) instrument, enabling the determination of lithium content from a minimal set of spectral features. Additionally, we compare the results obtained for real black mass with reference values from other elemental analysis techniques. The combination of the ANN algorithm speed and robustness with the reliability of the LIBS instrument demonstrates the feasibility of accurate determination of the lithium content in black mass with a minimum treatment of the samples and on very different matrices.
PMID:40394308 | DOI:10.1038/s41598-025-90379-4
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