Abstract
Chlorinated pesticide soil contamination still affects large territories due to past extensive use, poor solubility in water and scarce biodegradability of these agro-chemicals. In particular, this is noticeable for dichloro-diphenyl-trichloroethanes and their derivatives, globally referred as DDX contaminants. Presently, containment or immobilisation is a dominant approach to limit contamination, and remediation has been tried mainly at laboratory scale with contradictory results. Soil washing has been reported as a possible remediation treatment, although environmental effects of employed synthetic co-solvents or surfactants remain unclear. A soil washing treatment with sole water has been set up at laboratory scale, obtaining promising results on a contaminated soil with DDX level of 5050 mg/kg.
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