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PESTICIDES BIOPURIFICATION
SYSTEMS: Shifting our focus from on-
farm to off-farm activities
Panagiotis Karas, Christina Papazlatani, Guillermo Tucat,
Dimitrios G. Karpouzas
University of Thessaly, Department of Biochemistry and
Biotechnology, Lab of Plant and Environmental
Biotechnology, Larisa,
GREECE
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Pesticides Biopurification Systems
• Mostly synonymous to BIOBEDS
• Used for treatment of pesticide-contaminated
effluents produced by on-farm activities
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Biobed PackingMaterial
clay layer
driving ramp
grass
10 cm
50 cm
compost
Lignocellulosic
material
(i.e. straw)
Soil
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WWorld Map of on-farm biobed systems
www.biobeds.net
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Off-farm activities that produce
pesticide-contaminated wastewaters
• Fruit-packaging industry
• Seed-coating industry (cotton and wheat)
• Bulb disinfestation industry
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Fruit-packaging plants.........
• Fungicides and antioxidants are applied for the control of
postharvest fungal decays by Penicilium and physiological
disorders (apple scald) in apples, pomes, citrus, oranges
• Production of large amounts of wastewaters (10-100 m3)
containing high pesticide loads (1-100 mg/L)
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Fungicides registered at EU level in
fruit packaging plants
Fungicides Registration Status
Imazalil Yes until 31/7/2021
Thiabendazole Yes until 31/12/2021
Ortho-phenylphenol Yes until 31/12/2019
Fludioxonil Yes until 31.10.2019
Ortho-phenylphenol
thiabendazole
imazalil
fludioxonil
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Antioxidants used at EU level in
fruit packaging plants
Fungicides Registration
Status
Registration in
member states
Ethoxyquin Not inclusion in
Annex I since 2009
-
Diphenylamine Not inclusion in
Annex I since 2012
Under re-evaluation
diphenylamine
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All those pesticides share a common
paragraph in their registration documents…..
Member States should pay particular attention to
ensure that appropriate waste management practices to
handle the waste solution remaining after application,
including for instance the cleaning water of the drenching
system and the discharge of the processing waste are put
in place
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How do we handle these
wastewaters today?• Disposal into municipal wastewater treatment plants
No removal of those pesticides in MWTPs
Campo et al. (2013) J Hazard. Mat. 263P: 146-157
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How do we handle these wastewaters
today?
• Land spreading on adjacent field sites
12000 mg/Kg
400 mg/Kg
250 mg/Kg
12 mg/Kg
2m 4m 8m
Result in the progressive contamination of soil especially for
persistent chemicals like thiabendazole
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How do we handle these
wastewaters today?
• Physicochemical treatment with CONTROL TecEco®
(Technidex) based on filtration through activated carbon
• Highly efficient for thiabendazole
• Not adopted due to high cost and high engineering needs
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How do we handle these
wastewaters today?
• Treatment by companies certified to treat ex situ toxic
wastes
• Unacceptable cost (0.70 – 3 € per litre of wastewater (depending on the volume))
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So we aim….
• To provide an effective and economic solution
for the local fruit packaging plants to depurate
the wastewaters produced by their phytosanitary
activities
Biobeds - Why not?
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Biobed Packing Material
• Soil
• Straw
• Spent Mushroom Substrate: Pasteurized straw
colonized by Pleurotus ostreatus edible basidiomycetes
(good pesticide-degrader) which is considered a waste
for mushroom growers after 2-4 harvests and they would
like to find a way to get rid off it
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Biobeds for treatment of wastewaters
from post-harvest activities
Evaluation of pilot biobed systems
Handling of biobed effluent
Handling of biobed spent packing material
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Five Pilot Biobeds were constructed
Biobed 2
DPA + IMZ Biobed 1
OPP+IMZ
Biobed 3
OPP+TBZ
Biobed 2 bio
DPA+IMZ
Biobed3 bio
OPP+TBZ
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TBZ-OPPIMZ-DPA OPP-IMZ
Biobed 3Biobed 1
Biobed 2
Tank1 Tank2 Tank3
pump
Leachate
collection bottle
Biobed
2 bioaugBiobed 3
bioaug
bioaugmentation
Timer
switch
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Bioaugmentation Procedure
Biobed 3 bio
- TBZ degrading consortium
Sphingomonas haloaromaticans (OPP-degrader)
Biobed 2 bio
- Pseudomonas putida (DPA-degrader)
106 cells/g
Hydrogenophaga
Sphingomonadales
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• 1.1 m3 of pesticide solution (100 mg/L
for each pesticide) was applied into the
large biobeds within a 5 month period
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Leachates collected on
a day by day intervals
and analyzed via
HPLC-UV
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At the end of the treatment period....
• 3 cores from each biobed (layers 0-
20, 20-50 and 50-80 cm)
• Extraction 3 times with water (readily
available for leaching)
• Subsequent Extraction with
Acetonitrile (less labile for leaching)
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Mass Balance Thiabendazole%
of
tota
l T
BZ
ap
plied
TBZ degrading consortium accelerates
significantly the dissipation of TBZ in the biobed
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Mass balance Imazalil
• Imazalil is the most persistent chemical from the ones
tested (DT50= 44-122 d) but even this is dissipated
effectively (72-96% of total applied)
• 99% of the amount retained was in the 0-20 cm layer
% o
f to
tal
IMZ
ap
plied
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Mass balance ortho-phenylphenol%
of
tota
l O
PP
ap
plied
• OPP dissipated and only small amounts were retained in the
biobed (water extractable)
• The indigenous microbial community had the capacity to
degrade OPP and no bioaugmentation was needed
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Mass balance diphenylamine
• DPA dissipated almost totally from biobeds with only small
amounts leaching
• The indigenous microbial community had the capacity to
degrade OPP and no bioaugmentation was needed
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Biobeds for treatment of wastewaters
from post-harvest activities
Evaluation of pilot biobed systems
Handling of biobed effluent
Handling of biobed spent packing material
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How much pesticide in the biobed-
treated effluents?
Pesticides % Leached Depuration Efficiency (%)
Thiabendazole 0 and 0.46 >99.5
Imazalil 0.52, 0.02, 0.03 >99.5
Diphenylamine 0.03 and 0.07 >99.9
Ortho-phenylphenol 0.01-0.10 >99.9
Is this acceptable for direct
environmental release i.e. land-
spreading ?Risk Assessment
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Risk assessment assumptions
• Depuration efficiencies of pilot biobeds per pesticide
• 100 mg L-1 of pesticide concentration in wastewaters
• Two Scenarios tested:
- Pome fruits packaging plants (25 m3 of wastewater containing
DPA + IMZ or TBZ)
- Citrus fruits packaging plants (42 m3 of wastewater containing
OPP and 11 m3 of wastewater containing IMZ or TBZ)
• Discharge of treated effluents in a 0.1 ha disposal site
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Risk assessment Calculations
• Predicted Environmental Concentrations in Soil
(PECsoil) calculated with PECsoil calculator
• Predicted Environmental Concentrations in
Water and Sediment (PECsw or PECsed)
calculated with STEP1-2 calculation tool
• Toxicological endpoints ( i.e. Regulatory
Acceptable Concentrations, RACs) for aquatics,
earthworms and terrestrial arthropods were taken
from pesticide regulatory documents
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Risk Assessment Decisions
Trigger for Unacceptable Risk
• PECs / RACs > 1 (Aquatics)
• Toxicity Exposure Ratio (TER) <10 (Earthworms)
• Hazard Quotient (HQ) > 2 (Soil arthropods)
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PECs / RACs Aquatics
No unacceptable risk for DPA, OPP, IMZ and TBZ (only in Scenario II)
Unacceptable risk for TBZ in Scenario I which required refinement:
- Bioaugmentation of biobeds (lower TBZ concentrations effluents)
- Disposal of effluents in a 0.2 ha site
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TER<10 HQ>2
No unacceptable risk for earthworms and soil-dwelling arthropods
Terrestrial organisms
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Biobeds for treatment of wastewaters
from post-harvest activities
Evaluation of pilot biobed systems
Handling of biobed effluent
Handling of biobed spent packing material
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How do we decontaminate the spend
biobed packing materia?• Composting with fresh organic matter (straw
+ cotton crop residues + N)
• Storage at ambient temperature (CONTROL)
• Bioaugmentation with pesticide-degrading microbes
- Mixture (106 cells/g) of TBZ - , DPA and
OPP-degrading bacteria
• Bioaugmentation and composting
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Bioaugmentation: the
most effective
decontamination method
Composting or storage
at ambient temperature
resulted in acceptable
levels of decontamination
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Conclusions for FPP wastewater
• Depuration efficiency of biobeds > 99.5% for all pesticides
• Bioaugmentation for persistent chemicals like TBZ optimizes
performance
• Treated effluents could be disposed into soil disposal site in the
vast majority of cases without environmental risk
• Bioaugmentation most potent method for the decontamination
of the spent biobed packing material. In the absence of inocula,
composting or storage at ambient temperature could achieve
effective reduction in pesticide levels in the spent packing
material
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Off-farm activities that produce
pesticide-contaminated wastewaters
• Fruit-packaging industry
• Seed-coating industry (cotton and wheat)
• Bulb disinfestation industry
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Seed-coating industry
• Coating of wheat and cotton seeds with fungicides
and insecticides
• Periods of production: Feb-Mar & July-Aug
• Each period 2-3 m3 of wastewaters with the following
pesticides:
- Metalaxyl-M & Carboxin (Cotton)
- Fludioxonil, Fluxapyroxad, Tebuconazole (Wheat)
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Main problem: apart from high
pesticide loads….the dyes
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Bulb disinfestation industry
• Bulbs of potatoes and ornamentals dipping
in dense water fungicide solutions
• Wastewaters containing high pesticide
concentrations need to be treated before
environmental disposal
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What’s next………
• Pilot biobeds tested on wastewaters from
seed coating (dyes problem) and bulb
dipping
• Use of biobeds as a source of microbes
and enzymes with advanced catabolic
properties via functional metagenomics
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Functional metagenomic analysis
of a biobed packing material
• A biobed system from INRA, Dijon Farm
• Exposure to several pesticides
• ‘Inside’ information for accelerated
biodegradation of isoproturon
and presence of the pdmAB gene
pyrethroids25%
organophosphates
strobilurines20%
triazoles25%
glyphosate12%
phenylureas3%
amides6%
sulfonylureas
3%
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Functional metagenomics
• HMW DNA was extracted from biobed
• Fosmid library (40 kbp DNA inserts) of
20.000 clones were prepared and tested with
plate phenotypic tests for
- Esterase/carboxyesterase activity
(pyrethroids, organophosphates)
- Aromatic monoxygenase activity
(triazoles, phenylureas)
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1st Screening of Phenotype 2nd Screening of Phenotype
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Phenotypic test Genes with catabolic functional annotation
Tributyrin Carboxylesterase NlhH
Tributyrin Carboxylesterase NlhH
Tributyrin α/β hydrolase, epoxide hydrolase,
3-carboxy-cis,cis-muconate cycloisomerase, 3-oxoadipate enol-lactonase, γ-
carboxymuconolactone decarboxylase (protocatechuate pathway)
Tributyrin Esterase EstB
Tributyrin Pimeloyl-[acyl-carrier protein] methyl ester esterase
Tributyrin 6-aminohexanoate-cyclic-dimer hydrolase
Tributyrin Esterase EstB
Tributyrin Transglycosylase
Tributyrin α/β hydrolase
Indole/caprylate Nitronate monooxygenase; flavin-dependent monooxygenase
Indole/caprylate 4-hydroxybenzoyl-CoA thioesterase, Anthraniloyl-CoA monooxygenase
Indole/caprylate Phenoxybenzoate dioxygenase subunit β, α/β hydrolase
3-oxoadipate enol-lactonase, 2, 2,5-dihydroxypyridine dioxygenase, p-hydroxyphenylacetate 3-
hydroxylase reductase component (ring cleavage path)
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The 12 positive clones were tested for degrading activity (HPLC)
towards the synthetic pyrethroid a-cypermethrin (the most used
pesticide class in the biobed and prone to microbial esterases)
E. coli clones carrying fosmids 12 and 13 showed a
partial degradation of cypermenthrin
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Isolated also a clone containing the pdmAB cassette responsible for
the dimethylation of isoproturon
• The pdmAB cassette from the fosmid library was identical with the
pdmAB cassette found in different Sphingomonas strains able to
degrade isoproturon (horizontal gene transfer)
• We purified the relevant enzymes and we test their substrate
specificity (bacterial pdmAB and metagenome pdmAB differ into
two aa residue)
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Many thanks to my co-authors....
Panagiotis Karas, Postdoc
Lab of Plant and Environmental
Biotechnology Website: plantenvlab.bio.uth.gr
Christina Papazlatani PhD student
Chiara Perruchon,
Postdoc
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