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Environmental fate of the herbicide MCPA in agricultural soils amended with fresh and aged de-oiled two-phase olive mill waste

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Olive oil agrifood industry generates large amounts of waste whose recycling as organic amendment represents an alternative to their disposal. The impact of de-oiled two-phase olive mill waste (DW) on the fate of 4-chloro-2-methylphenoxyacetic acid (MCPA) in Mediterranean agricultural soils was evaluated. Furthermore, the effect of the transformation of organic matter from this waste under field conditions was assessed. Four Mediterranean agricultural soils were selected and amended in laboratory with fresh DW and field-aged DW (DW and ADW treatments, respectively). Adsorption capacity increased by factors between 1.18 and 3.59, for the DW-amended soils, and by factor of 4.93, for ADW-amended soil, with respect to unamended soils, when 5 % amendment was applied. The DW amendment had inhibitory effect on dehydrogenase activity and slowed herbicide dissipation, whereas the opposite effect was observed in ADW treatments. In the field-amended soil, the amount of MCPA leached was significantly reduced from 56.9 % for unamended soil to 15.9 % at the 5 % rate. However, leaching losses of MCPA increased in the laboratory-amended soils, because of their high water-soluble organic carbon values which could enhance MCPA mobility, especially in the acidic soils. Therefore, the application of DW as organic amendment in Mediterranean agricultural soils could be an important management strategy to reduce MCPA leaching, especially if the organic matter had been previously transformed by ageing processes.

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This research was supported by the Spanish Ministries of Science and Innovation (AGL2010-21421-C02-02) and Economic and Competitiveness (AGL2013-48446-C3-2-R). David Peña and Daniel Becerra thank the local government of Extremadura for their predoctoral fellowship.

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    David Peña, Antonio López-Piñeiro & Javier Sánchez-Llerena

  2. Área de Producción Vegetal, Escuela de Ingenierías Agrarias, Universidad de Extremadura, Ctra. de Cáceres, 06071, Badajoz, Spain

    Ángel Albarrán & Daniel Becerra

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Peña, D., López-Piñeiro, A., Albarrán, Á. et al. Environmental fate of the herbicide MCPA in agricultural soils amended with fresh and aged de-oiled two-phase olive mill waste. Environ Sci Pollut Res 22, 13915–13925 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11356-015-4622-4

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