  Concern of toxic compounds and their, potentially more harmful degradation
products, present in aquatic environment alarmed scientific community and
research on the development of novel technologies for wastewater treatment had
become of great interest. Up to this date, many papers pointed out the
challenges and limitations of conventional wastewater treatment and of some
advanced oxidation processes. Advanced technologies based on the use of
non-equilibrium or non-thermal plasma had been recognized as a possible
solution for, not only degradation, but for complete removal of recalcitrant
organic micropollutants. While previous review papers have been focused on
plasma physics and chemistry of different types of discharges for few organic
micropollutants, this paper brings comprehensive review of current knowledge on
the chemistry and degradation pathways by using different non-thermal plasma
types for several micropollutants classes, such as pharmaceuticals,
perfluorinated compounds, pesticides, phenols and dyes and points out some
major research gaps.
