Contaminants · Organic compounds
Chlorobenzenes
An organic compound, that is, one built on carbon. Many organic compounds can be broken down by microbes, plants or fungi; others stay in the environment for decades.
- 10 written pages
- 432 sites on the national lists
- 0 species studied
On the national lists
Sites on the national lists whose official record names this substance. In the bar, the coloured part is the sites still listed. The lists, in full, are on the sites page.
United States
Superfund National Priorities List (NPL)423 sites, 342 still listed
Taiwan
Taiwan – control sites and remediation sites (Soil and Groundwater Pollution Remediation Act)9 sites, 4 still listed
Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
Notable case, Sachsen-Anhalt, Germany
Bitterfeld-Wolfen
PhytoremediationMicrobial bioremediation
SIN, Lombardia
Brescia-Caffaro
PhytoremediationMicrobial bioremediation
SIN, Cengio (Savona)
Cengio and Saliceto (ACNA)
PhytoremediationMycoremediationMicrobial bioremediation
SIN, Porto Torres, Sassari
Porto Torres industrial areas
Microbial bioremediation
The other sites with a page
In Italy
- BrindisiPuglia
- GelaGela (Caltanissetta)
- Pieve VergontePieve Vergonte (VB)
Elsewhere in the world
- Cidade dos Meninos (former HCH factory)Duque de Caxias, Brazil
- Former Changlong site, Changzhou (Foreign Languages School case)Changzhou (Xinbei District), China
- Sabiñánigo (Inquinosa lindane, Bailín and Sardas landfills)Aragón (Huesca), Spain