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Decontamination of soil polluted with different xenobiotic compounds is a worldwide problem. Apart from certain differences in technology-development among East and West, soil sanitation is required both in highly industrialized Western countries, as well as in Central and Eastern Europe. The extent of this problem has only recently become clear. A great effort has to be made to remediate the strongly polluted sites which have been identified till now. In The Netherlands, for example, more than 100,000 sites need remedial action [Soczó and Versluijs 1990]. A structural approach is necessary to solve this problem. One of the possibilities for remedial action is a clean-up of the soil, i.e. a remediation method aimed at removal of the contaminants.
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Rulkens, W.H., Grotenhuis, J.T.C., Tichý, R. (1995). Methods for Cleaning Contaminated Soils and Sediments. In: Förstner, U., Salomons, W., Mader, P. (eds) Heavy Metals. Environmental Science. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-79316-5_11
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