Contaminants · Organic compounds
Pesticides (mixed)
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.
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)387 sites, 315 still listed
Canada
Federal contaminated sites, High Priority for Action (Class 1)25 sites, 20 still listed
Species reported in the literature
Species that acted on this contaminant in at least one study, with the highest level of evidence available. They are pointers from the literature, not a remediation plan.
Sites where it is found
Where plants or fungi were tried
Notable case, Biên Hòa, Vietnam
Bien Hoa Airbase
Microbial bioremediation
SIN, Lombardia
Brescia-Caffaro
PhytoremediationMicrobial bioremediation
Notable case, Muynak, Uzbekistan
Dried Aral Sea bed (Aralkum) and Karakalpakstan
Microbial bioremediation
SIN, Colleferro, Anagni, Ceccano, Frosinone e altri 15 comuni (Roma, Frosinone)
Sacco River Valley
Phytoremediation
The other sites with a page
In Italy
- BrindisiPuglia
- Massa and CarraraMassa, Carrara
- Vesuvian Coast areasCosta vesuviana (Napoli)
Elsewhere in the world
- Bhopal (former Union Carbide plant)Madhya Pradesh, India
- Bonfol chemical landfillJura, Switzerland
- Chlordecone in the French West Indies (Martinique and Guadeloupe)bananeti di Martinica e Guadalupa, Martinique
- Former Changlong site, Changzhou (Foreign Languages School case)Changzhou (Xinbei District), China
- Former Fruitgrowers Chemical Company site, MāpuaTasman, New Zealand
- Høfde 42 (Harboøre Tange)Harboøre (Lemvig), Denmark
- Schweizerhalle (Sandoz fire)Muttenz / Pratteln, Switzerland
- Spolana NeratoviceStředočeský kraj, Czechia
- Teckomatorp (BT Kemi)Teckomatorp (Svalöv), Sweden