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Use of agro-industrial organic sludge amendment to remediate degraded soil: chemical and eco(geno)toxicological differences between fresh and stabilized sludge and establishment of application rates

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Soil degraded by coal mining activities can be remediated by amendment with agro-industrial organic sludge. However, the environmental impacts associated with this management practice must be properly addressed. In this context, the objective of this study was to evaluate the eco(geno)toxicity of a fresh and a stabilized sludge before use in a laboratory soil remediation test. Chemical analysis of the complex mixtures (degraded soil, fresh sludge, and stabilized sludge) was carried out, as well as a battery of eco(geno)toxicity tests on microbiological enzymes (fluorescein hydrolysis), earthworms, and higher plants (including Vicia faba genotoxicity test), according to published methodologies. The results of these tests showed that fresh sludge was more toxic than sludge stabilized over 6 months toward earthworms and higher plants (lettuce, corn, and wild cabbage), while phyto(geno)toxicity tests with V. faba indicated the same genotoxicity levels for the two types of sludge. In the soil remediation simulation using different mixtures of degraded soil and stabilized sludge, the proportions of 50:50 % (dry weight basis) provided the lowest phyto(geno)toxicity effects and this mixture can be used for the revegetation of the contaminated site.

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Acknowledgments

This work was financed by CNPq-Brazilian National Council for Scientific and Technological Development (Edital 44/2008-Processo 575389/2008-7). C.M. Radetski gratefully acknowledges the grants awarded by CNPq-(Grant N# 302798/2013-7).

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  1. Laboratório de Remediação Ambiental, Universidade do Vale do Itajaí, Rua Uruguai, 458, Cx.P. 360, Itajaí, SC, 88302-202, Brazil

    Claudete G. Chiochetta & Claudemir M. Radetski

  2. Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire des Environnements Continentaux (LIEC), CNRS UMR, Université de Lorraine, 7360, Rue du General Delestraint, Metz, F-57070, France

    Sylvie Cotelle, Jean-François Masfaraud & Hela Toumi

  3. Faculté des Sciences de Bizerte, Université de Carthage, Zarzouna, 7021, Bizerte, Tunisia

    Hela Toumi

  4. UMR 7517 CNRS, Université de Strasbourg–LHyGeS, 1 rue Blessig, Cedex 67084, Strasbourg, France

    Gaetana Quaranta

  5. Dipartimento di Produzione Vegetale, Gruppo RICICLA, Università Degli Studi di Milano, Via Celoria 2, 20133, Milan, Italy

    Fabrizio Adani

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Chiochetta, C.G., Cotelle, S., Masfaraud, JF. et al. Use of agro-industrial organic sludge amendment to remediate degraded soil: chemical and eco(geno)toxicological differences between fresh and stabilized sludge and establishment of application rates. Environ Sci Pollut Res 23, 3018–3025 (2016). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-5310-0

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