We deal with areas of industrial pollution primarily as a problem to be treated from an environmental point of view, while the maintenance and the remediation of contaminated sites are currently a cost to the owners and operators. With the approach presented by us, these areas can, in parallel with the implementation and operation of remediation technologies, reintegrate into value-creating economic processes.
In terms of their location, the contaminants are mainly found in deeper layers of the soil or in the landfill. In both cases, it is possible to use microorganisms to reduce, recover or fix contaminants – at the same time crop production might be done on the surface of the site or landfill, which plays a dual role: on the one hand physically fixes the soil structure and helps functioning the bacteria; and on the other hand it can be a source of value added chemical raw materials (organic acids, medicinal compounds, etc.). By the appropriate chemical processing of biomass, the level of possible contamination can be reduced completely.
Required resources: expert background, machines used in remediation technologies.
The duration of interventions depends on the quality and quantity parameters of the pollution – 1-5 years.
Risks: technology combines crop production and remediation – so cooperation and openness of authorities is important. From the professional side, the selection of the appropriate plant population and the processing protocol are of high importance, as well as the assessment of the area, the modeling of processes, and the construction of an appropriate logistics network.
