Improvement of marine environmental pollution using eco-system: decomposition and recovery of endocrine disrupting chemicals by marine phyto- and zooplanktons

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. (C) 2003 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.