Soil Pollution and Remediation Approaches

oil pollution is one of the major threats to the environment in the modern age. As a result of rapid urbanization and industrialization, the soil is being constantly dumped with various organic and inorganic pollutants such as heavy metals, pesticides and fertilizers, petroleum products, polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbon etc. Soil pollution results in hampering the soil physicochemical and biological properties and subsequently reducing the agricultural productivity. The pollutants can also be transferred to other environmental compartments such as water bodies and pollute them as well. Soil pollution can also lead to various health hazards to human beings as well as other animals. Polluted soil can be remediated by a variety of physicochemical and biological methods and new technologies have further ramped up the process in the past few decades. This chapter aims to give a brief account of the different types of soil pollution as well as their remediation approaches