Further evidence of biodegradability of the POP chlordecone under methanogenic conditions

Hervé Macarie (1, 2, 3) , Yoan Labrousse (1, 2, 3) , Maria Isabel Sastre-Conde (4) , Sébastien Bristeau (5) , Christophe Mouvet (5)

1 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
2 Institut de recherche pour le développement [IRD] : UMR237
3 CAEC - Campus agro-environnemental Caraïbe
4 SEMILLA-INAGEA
5 BRGM - Bureau de Recherches Géologiques et Minières (BRGM)

Measurement of chlordecone and 5b-hydrochlordecone at the entrance, exit and in the sludge of two full-scale anaerobic digesters treating contaminated rum vinasses confirms the capacity of such environments to eliminate them, suggesting that methanogenic sludges could be used as microbial agents in the remediation of impacted environments.

Mots clés: Martinique; chlordecone; Guadeloupe; 5b-hydro-chlordecone; methanogens; anaerobiosis; organochlorine; French West Indies; remediation

Domaines: Bactériologie; Sciences de l'environnement

Hervé Macarie, Yoan Labrousse, Maria Isabel Sastre-Conde, Sébastien Bristeau, Christophe Mouvet. Further evidence of biodegradability of the POP chlordecone under methanogenic conditions. Lema J.M. (ed.), Fdez-Polanco F. (ed.), Carballa M. (ed.), Rodriguez J. (ed.), Suarez S. (ed.). 13th World Congress on Anaerobic Digestion, Jun 2013, Saint Jacques de Compostelle, Spain. IWA Anaerobic Digestion Specialist Group, 3 p./ISBN 978-84-695-7756-1, 2013, Proceedings of 13th world congress on anaerobic digestion : Recovering (bio)resources for the world [CD ROM ]. ⟨hal-01648258⟩