Phytotoxicity and phytogenotoxicity of soils in the area of liquidated pesticide-burial ground

Abstract

Abstract Phytotoxicity and phytogenotoxicity of soils in the area of liquidated pesticide-burial ground. First efforts to reduce the environmental risks caused by existing pesticide burial grounds were undertaken in Poland at the beginning of the 1990s. Work on their liquidation was accelerated after the adoption of the fi rst National Waste Management Plan 2006 and National Waste Management Plan 2010. In 2011 The Supreme Audit Offi ce carried out an assessment of the realisation of the plans, which revealed the negligence in monitoring of the areas of liquidated pesticide burial grounds, whilst even after the land reclamation process, the remaining contamination could still pose environmental risk. In such areas, to evaluate the impact of the mixture of potentially present toxic and genotoxic substances, higher plant bioassays are very useful. On the example of liquidated pesticide burial ground in Grójec we concluded, that after several years from the liquidation and land reclamation processes, environmental impact of this type of facility could still be perceptible. Phytogenotoxicity of soil samples, collected from the liquidated burial site and the immediate vicinity, was detected with Vicia faba Root Tip Assay.