Possibilities of Reducing the Soil and Water Pollution Using Agricultural and Forestry Solid Biomass

Abstract

The polluting effect of wood sawdust left in nature acts especially on the environment due to biodegradation in time, under the action of bad weather, fungi and micro-organisms. 
 Forestry and agricultural waste can be transformed through a technological process in pellets, agricultural pellets or combustible briquettes, products which may be used for energetic purposes, leading to higher use of them, and to nature protection of natural pollution with these secondary products.
 Determination of the influences of uncontrolled timber waste storage on the environmental components regarding the soil's quality in a site located in an unarranged sawdust warehouse area led to marking out an insignificant level of pollution induced by the quality indicator of phenols in all the soil profiles analyzed. Concentrations of pollutants in the air (ammonia and hydrogen sulfide) were below the limit value laid down in STAS 12574-87, while the measured concentrations of powders (PM 10) were located in the area of limit values.