Soil Contamination: Case Study on Environmental Rehabilitation of the Trajouce Ecopark

João Dias Coelho (), Joana Frazão () and Susana Dias ()
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João Dias Coelho: Tratolixo
Joana Frazão: Tratolixo
Susana Dias: Tratolixo

A chapter in Modeling Innovation Sustainability and Technologies, 2018, pp 289-294 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract Soil contamination can be defined as the presence of pollutants above certain levels which cause the deterioration of its environmental functions (European Commission. http://esdac.jrc.ec.europa.eu/themes/soil-contamination. . Accessed 30 Sept 2015). This contamination may be due to industrial chemicals or changes on the soil’s environmental features. Between 2003 and 2005 there was an improper waste disposal on Trajouce’s Ecopark. In 2012, Tratolixo began the recovery and rehabilitation of those areas through the “Environmental Rehabilitation Plan of Trajouce’s Ecopark”. In 2012, Tratolixo started removing and sending the residues from the “Waste Deposit” to its final destination. In June 2013, the company tested a new solution—sorting the materials and reusing them “in situ” maximizing the reuse principle. This new method allowed for a substantial reduction on amounts of waste sent to the appropriate destination, and it also reduced the initially estimated costs of the Rehabilitation Plan by approximately 85%. This chapter describes a real case of soil contamination and its demanding process of remediation.

Keywords: Soil; Rehabilitation; TRATOLIXO; Waste deposit (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2018
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DOI: 10.1007/978-3-319-67101-7_21

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