Implementation of best available techniques in the sanitation of relict burdens

The paper deals with the elimination of highly toxic and persistent relict burdens caused by polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins, dibenzofurans, biphenyls, hexachlorobenzene, γ-isomer of hexachlorocyclohexane and other organic halogen derivatives. The technology is used in eliminating the aforementioned contaminants from soil, rubble and metal parts of former machinery with the use of best available techniques. Such a technology has been implemented in the northern part of the town of Neratovice and the Spolana company, plc, which formerly used to be a significant producer of pesticides in the Czech Republic.