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A sustainable approach to manage metal-contaminated soils: a preliminary greenhouse study for the possible production of metal-enriched ryegrass biomass for biosourced catalysts

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Two kitchen garden soils (A and B) sampled in contaminated areas were amended using phosphates in sustainable quantities in order to reduce the environmental availability of potentially toxic inorganic elements (PTEs) and to favour the availability of alkali, alkali earth and micronutrients. The environmental availability of PTEs was evaluated using a potential plant for revegetation of contaminated soils (ryegrass) and a mixture of low molecular weight organic acids. Despite the highest contamination level of B, the concentration of metals was highest in the ryegrass shoots grown on A for the two harvests. These results correlated well with those obtained using low molecular weight organic acids for Cd, Zn and Cu, whereas this mixture failed to represent the transfer of nutrients due to the presence of biological and physiological mechanisms. The statistical differences between the biomass of ryegrass obtained at the first and the second harvests were attributed to the decrease of available potassium, implicated in the growth and development of plants. Phosphates increased the ratios Zn/Cd, Zn/Pb and Zn/Cu up to 176 ± 48, 38 ± 6 and 80 ± 12, respectively, and made possible the reduction of the concentration of Cd and Pb in the shoots of ryegrass by 22% and 25%, respectively. The concentration of Zn in the shoots of ryegrass from the first and the second harvests grown on soil A were in the range 1050–2000 mg kg−1, making this plant a potential biomass to (i) produce biosourced catalysts for organic chemistry applications in a circular economy concept and (ii) limit human exposure to commercial Lewis acids. A preliminary application was identified.

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The authors warmly thank the “Fondation de la Catho de Lille, France” and Yncréa Hauts-de-France for the financial support of this work.

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  1. Laboratoire Génie Civil et géoEnvironnement (LGCgE), Yncrea Hauts-de-France, Institut Supérieur d’Agriculture, 48 boulevard Vauban, 59046, Lille Cedex, France

    Marie Hechelski, Brice Louvel & Christophe Waterlot

  2. Laboratoire de chimie durable et santé, Yncrea Hauts-de-France, Ecole des Hautes Etudes d’Ingénieur, 13 rue de Toul, 59046, Lille Cedex, France

    Pierrick Dufrénoy

  3. Normandie Univ., UNILEHAVRE, FR 3038 CNRS, URCOM, 76600 Le Havre, BP: 1123 EA 3221, INC3M CNRS-FR 3038, UFR ST 25 rue Philipe Lebon, F-76063, Le Havre Cedex, France

    Pierrick Dufrénoy & Alina Ghinet

  4. Faculté de médecine – Pôle recherche Inserm U995, LIRIC, Université de Lille, CHU de Lille Place Verdun, 59045, Lille Cedex, France

    Alina Ghinet

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    Alina Ghinet

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Hechelski, M., Louvel, B., Dufrénoy, P. et al. A sustainable approach to manage metal-contaminated soils: a preliminary greenhouse study for the possible production of metal-enriched ryegrass biomass for biosourced catalysts. Environ Monit Assess 191, 626 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10661-019-7782-8

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