PROMISCES

PROMISCES aims to understand the origins, routes and fates of pollutants which spread easily in the environment and are very persistent. The Horizon 2020-funded project is developing technologies to remove these pollutants from soils, sediments, surface- and groundwater, since they can be harmful to human health: • "PROMISCES aims to enable a safe circular economy for the soil-sediment-water cycle." • "PROMISCES will develop, test and demonstrate in the field, under "real-life conditions", key technologies and innovations to monitor, prevent and remediate industrial persistent and mobile and potentially toxic (iPM(T)s) pollutants in the soil-sediment-water system." • "PROMISCES is centred around seven representative case studies in different European regions linked with chemical pollution challenges. The project will support the sustainability roadmap of urbanised areas by reducing the environmental impacts on waters (surface and groundwater, urban runoff, wastewater, landfill leachate), soils (contaminated sites, brownfields) and dredged sediments (river, sea-ports)." • "PROMISCES will provide concepts for zero-pollution circularity applied to waters (e.g. water reuse for irrigation, bank filtration for drinking water supply) and complex solid matrices (land recycling, nutrient recovery from sewage sludge, dredged sediment valorisation) across the private and public sectors." • "PROMISCES will have a particular focus on PFAS compounds that reflects the urgent need for better management of historic and current pollutant emissions within the different circular economy routes. The focus on other iPM(T)s reflects the need to apply lessons learned from PFAS threats to human health to a wider range of chemicals, including those replacing PFAS after the EU-wide ban on usage and production".