sustainability Review Application of Floating Aquatic Plants in Phytoremediation of Heavy Metals Polluted Water: A Review Shafaqat Ali 1,2,* , Zohaib Abbas 1, Muhammad Rizwan 1 , Ihsan Elahi Zaheer 1, Ilkay˙ Yava¸s 3 , Aydın Ünay 4 , Mohamed M. Abdel-DAIM 5,6 , May Bin-Jumah 7 , Mirza Hasanuzzaman 8 and Dimitris Kalderis 9 1 Department of Environmental Sciences and Engineering, Government College University, Allama Iqbal Road, Faisalabad 38000, Pakistan;
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[email protected] Received: 11 February 2020; Accepted: 24 February 2020; Published: 3 March 2020 Abstract: Heavy-metal (HM) pollution is considered a leading source of environmental contamination.