Technology helps environmental protection: exploring the identification and tracing of new pollutants in multi-media environments

In recent years, with the rapid development of industries such as medicine, energy, and consumer electronics, a variety of new pollutants may be generated during product production and use. These new pollutants usually have many characteristics such as wide sources, unknown toxicity, hidden exposure, difficult degradation and difficult treatment. Long-term enrichment in environmental media will pose a potential threat to the ecosystem and human health.

my country's 14th Five-Year Plan and the Outline of the Long-Term Goals for 2035 clearly define the control of new pollutants as a major strategic need for the country's future development. Therefore, the identification, tracing and risk assessment of new pollutants in different environmental media have become important issues that need to be urgently addressed in the current fields of environmental science and public health.

As the second National Ecology Day approaches, let us learn how technology can help my country's ecological and environmental protection cause in the identification and tracing of new pollutants.