This paper reviews the development of ex-situ soil treatment technologies over the last 20 years, against the background of developing legislation and market forces. Legislation along the lines of site remediation, soil treatment, landfilling and reuse was developed and improved in the eighties and nineties. In addition, substantial budgets were made available by the national government to tack...

Heavy metal contaminated soil raises major global environmental and agricultural concern. Recently soil pollution through lead (Pb) and chromium (Cr) becoming serious problem and remediation or utilization of those contaminated soil with potential crops is of the outmost importance. The objectives of present study were to examine the effects of Pb and Cr on three different kenaf and mesta varie...

In order to test the suitability of using Brassica juncea for the remediation by phytoextraction of soils contaminated with U and Ra, the transfer process to the plant was studied. A soil with high natural uranium mineralization was used for the study. When the soil was not manipulated, the transfer factor (TF) was 0.24 ± 0.02 and 1.5 ± 0.3 for U and Ra, respectively. These low values, especial...

Background: High concentrations of various heavy metals of mine tailings can easily contaminate the environment. Such materials need monitoring and remediation to prevent them from polluting the environment and food chain. Materials & Methods: The concentrations of certain metals were evaluated in the soil samples at Sorkheh and Mazraeh copper mining areas in northwestern Iran, using three r...

Remediation of sites contaminated by toxic chlorinated organic compounds by using nanoscale iron particles (NIP) has received great attention owing to their high reactivity resulting from small size and large reactive surface area. However, adequate delivery of NIP into the contaminated zones for in situ remediation applications is difficult because of NIP agglomeration and sedimentation. Diffe...

Plant-based remediation is a relatively new, efficient, and environmentally friendly technology, which can be promising for removing many contaminants like hydrocarbon pollutants. The main objectives of the current study were to investigate the effect of petroleum hydrocarbons with high initial concentration (about 3.5% by weight) on growth characteristics of maize (Zea mays L.), and tall fescu...

The remediation methods of heavy metal contaminated soil can be divided into bioremediation, physical and chemical remediation. Chemical mainly includes leaching curing. There are two kinds methods: in situ ectopic eluent metals inorganic eluent, chelating agent, surfactant so on. Soil applied to the alone or combined with other methods.