SOIL REMEDIATION THEMATIC AREAS

To this end Soil Remediation research has developed two different approaches to remediate contaminated soils and sediments :

- chemical-physical technologies, that apply innovative methods to remove pollutants from the soil and sediments with the lowest environmental impact, i.e. soil/ sediments washing by biogenic surfactants that definitively remove the risks posed by organic solvents or inorganic reagents, or oxidative technologies (Fenton or foto-Fenton methods) to pre-treat the polluted soil/ sediments or to post-treat the washed soil/sediments or to treat the lecheate coming from soil/sediments washing

- bioremediation, a developing technology that uses microrganisms to degrade contaminants into less toxic or non-toxic compounds. As the more traditional remediation technologies are proving to be expensive and in certain instances slow, bioremediation has become a popular and attractive alternative.