This project deals with safeguarding the pollution of ground and surface water by chemicals originating from used plant protection products so that there are no risks for humans, animals and the environment. The general aim of the project is to improve the measured water quality of surface and groundwater. Avoiding point pollutants and achieving maximum efficiency of the crop protection treatments to be applied are central.
The project will be elaborated as a problem decomposition with action points towards prevention and end-of-pipe techniques.
- Prevention: combining visual and quantitatively substantiated sensitisation and building bite-sized knowledge around ideal conditions for the application of crop protection.
- End-of-pipe techniques: the construction of biological treatment systems (biofilters) to purify water laden with plant protection products in a labour- and environment-friendly way.
The accumulated knowledge will be presented several times a year during small demo moments so that mutual information transfer is as easy as possible.
The target audience of this project is everyone who comes into contact with crop protection. This includes all agricultural and horticultural users, but also the production industry, distributors and private individuals. The latter public only comes into contact with a limited amount of crop protection, but the products are easy to buy (e.g. Aveve, Carrefour,...) and there is a very large lack of good knowledge about storage, use and personal protection.
In future, it will be possible to obtain certain tools such as canister extrusion system, spray kit, biofilter and others through this project. Further details around this operation will be communicated later.
