Growth in the numbers of organic chemicals during recent decades has been extraordinary. Most are complex compounds that are released directly and/or indirectly to the surrounding environment. A view is emerging in relation to environmental protection and hazardous substance management that (1) some organic chemicals and/or organic leachates from solid waste materials and contaminated sediment/soil sites are of such extreme environmental concern that all use should be highly controlled including isolation for disposal; and (2) most hazardous substances are of sufficient social value that their continual use, production and disposal are justified. For these chemicals their types, sources, fate, behavior, effects and remediation at solid- aqueous phase interfaces must be fully assessed and understood. This assessment and understanding are essential for society to accept risks of adverse ecological or human health effects.

State of the art account on the emerging topic of the interaction between environmental pollutants and solids (soils, sediments, rocks)

Inhalt
Foreword.- Organic Pollutants in Aqueous-Solid Phase Environments: Types, Analysis and Characterizations.- Interaction Mechanisms Between Organic Pollutants and Solid Phase Systems.- Sorption/Desorption of Organic Pollutants from Complex Mixtures: Modeling, Kinetics, Experimental Techniques and Transport Parameters.- QSAR/QSPR and Multicomponent Joint Toxic Effect Modeling of Organic Pollutants at Aqueous-Solid Phase Interfaces.- Microbial Transformations at Aqueous-Solid Phase Interfaces: A Bioremediation Approach.- Subject Index