Chlorinated Hydrocarbons
In the 1990s BioSoil, the Netherlands Organization for Applied Scientific Research and Wageningen University collectively achieved a breakthrough in the treatment of sites contaminated with tetrachloro-ethene and trichloro-ethene, by removing the chlorine under anaerobic conditions and thus converting it into harmless compounds. Ever since that time the approach and the process have been continually optimized so that it has been possible to successfully conclude several projects both here and abroad. The research has expanded in the direction of a much broader scale of contaminants, such as pesticides.