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- Title
Biogeochemical and engineered barriers for preventing spread of contaminants.
- Authors
Baltrėnaitė, Edita; Lietuvninkas, Arvydas; Baltrėnas, Pranas
- Abstract
The intensive industrial development and urbanization, as well as the negligible return of hazardous components to the deeper layers of the Earth, increases the contamination load on the noosphere (i.e., the new status of the biosphere, the development of which is mainly controlled by the conscious activity of a human being). The need for reducing the spread and mobility of contaminants is growing. The insights into the role of the tree in the reduction of contaminant mobility through its life cycle are presented to show an important function performed by the living matter and its products in reducing contamination. For maintaining the sustainable development, natural materials are often used as the media in the environmental protection technologies. However, due to increasing contamination intensity, the capacity of natural materials is not sufficiently high. Therefore, the popularity of engineered materials, such as biochar which is the thermochemically modified lignocellulosic product, is growing. The new approaches, based on using the contaminant footprint, as well as natural (biogeochemical) and engineered barriers for reducing contaminant migration and their application, are described in the paper.
- Subjects
BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; ENGINEERED barrier systems (Waste disposal); LIFE cycles (Biology); BIOCHAR; POLLUTANTS; PREVENTION
- Publication
Environmental Science & Pollution Research, 2018, Vol 25, Issue 6, p5254
- ISSN
0944-1344
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1007/s11356-017-9539-7