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Toxic Soil Contamination and Its Mitigation in Ukraine

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From the days of the Soviet Union, Ukraine inherited many abandoned stores of pesticide and herbicide, their use-by dates long expired, and dumps of toxic waste. These sites are health hazards and a serious factor for regional environmental instability, polluting soils and water resources. Impetus for dealing with them came with ratification, in 2004, of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) aimed at reducing and phasing-out particularly toxic compounds, and the National Plan for the Stockholm Convention on POPs (2011). Four thousand five hundred dumps of obsolete pesticides and waste products were recorded in Ukraine in 2010; by the end of 2014, these had been cut to 1033. Details are given of the state of hazardous waste from the organochlorine plant operated in Kalush in western Ukraine that illustrates examples of successful removal and disposal of large amounts of toxic wastes but, still, many unresolved issues.

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  1. Institute of Environmental Geochemistry of the National Academy of Sciences, 34a Palladina Prospect, Kyiv, 03680, Ukraine

    Valeriia Kovach & Georgii Lysychenko

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Kovach, V., Lysychenko, G. (2017). Toxic Soil Contamination and Its Mitigation in Ukraine. In: Dent, D., Dmytruk, Y. (eds) Soil Science Working for a Living . Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-45417-7_18

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