PROMISCES CEN Workshop Agreement

Soil-sediment-water system - Solutions to deal with PMT/vPvM substances

 

PROMISCES, in collaboration with our sister projects ZeroPM and SCENARIOS, developed a CEN Workshop Agreement focused on the soil-sediment-water system. 

 

This document presents the outcome of the CEN (European Committee for Standardization) Workshop Agreement (CWA) on “Soil-sediment-water system – Solutions to deal with PMT/vPvM substances”. Developed collaboratively with PROMISCES and the ZeroPM and SCENARIOS sister projects, the CWA addresses challenges related to persistent, mobile, and potentially toxic (PM(T)) and very persistent, very mobile (vPvM) substances, including PFAS, in soil, sediment and water systems.

The primary goals of the CWA are to address challenges related to the management of PM(T) substances across environmental compartments. These challenges are addressed in the CWA by offering solutions from the three Horizon Europe funded projects in the categories of prevention, substitution, monitoring, remediation, risk governance of remediation projects, and hazard and exposure assessments.

Key solutions include new methods for PFAS analysis, risk assessment improvements, and solutions for PFAS removal from various matrices like wastewater, sediment, and sludge. The CWA aims to promote a European circular economy and focuses on five specific routes: semi-closed water cycles for drinking water supply, wastewater reuse for agricultural irrigation, nutrient and energy recovery from treated sludge for fertilisers, material recovery from dredged sediment for eco-materials, and groundwater and soil remediation. The information contained in the CWA is relevant to actors along the various circular economy and PM(T) exposure routes, including researchers, public authorities, water utilities, and solution-developing companies.

The whole document can be viewed here.