Remediation of soils contaminated with pesticides: a review

Phytoremediation and Bioremediation of Pesticide-Contaminated Soil

“…The remediation of pesticides in soil and ground water is important because of public health, the need for healthy productive soils, and for drinking water that is safe to consume. There are several reviews of research on the remediation processes for pesticide contaminated soil [4,13,21,34,40,78,111,114,122,147,163,192,200,214,219,222,223,228,236,262,[274][275][276][277][278][279][280][281]283,284]. The review on physicochemical remediation processes [275] is a very recent addition to the literature, and the review on bioaugmentation [277] was published in 2017.…”

“…Bioremediation can take place under aerobic and anaerobic conditions [25,111,133,221]. The science of bioremediation is important for both in situ bioremediation and in applications where pesticide-contaminated soil is treated using composting, land farming or biopiles [34,111,264,277,279,283,284].…”

Hydroxypropyl-β-cyclodextrin-based extraction for diuron bioaccessibility in an artificially contaminated soil

“…It is known that after a chemical enters the soil matrix, it may relocate into the micropores or become irreversibly bound to the soil, where it is not accessible for microbial breakdown or plant uptake. Hence, the bioaccessibility of a chemical may decline over time, whereas the total concentration in soil remains the same [10][11][12].…”

Degradation of organophosphorus pesticide diazinon using activated persulfate: Optimization of operational parameters and comparative study by Taguchi's method

“…Diazinon (Table. 1) is a reputed organophosphate pesticide, which is expansively used to control the insects in soil, plants, fruit and vegetable crops and for other general purposes [5][6][7]. Just in the USA, almost 6 million pounds of diazinon are used yearly on farming sites [8].…”