Rittmo

I. Details & definitions :

Agriculture may produce effluents containing pesticides residues.

Farmers feel more and more responsible for their effluents and wish sustainable solutions to be developed to reduce the impact of these contaminants on the Environment.

RITTMO agroenvironnement collaborates with several (UHA, ENGEES) to develop solutions adapted to different contexts and customers on different matrices (sediments, waters used to wash materials, etc.).

Just contact RITTMO agroenvironnement to develop solutions adapted to your case.

II. Developing tools for characterisation

cf List of our equipments

III. PRESENTATION OF COMPETENCES

 sub-contractor for the ARTWET Life (EU) project
 Development of ecotoxicological assays to measure efficiency of depollution processes
 Perform research for a local SME on biodegrading a mixture of pesticides in liquid
 Develop a biological, robust tool that could be proposed to farmers on shared use

IV. SPECIFIC EQUIPEMENTS

In order to drive these studies, RITTMO agroenvironnement uses :
 laboratory of microbiology for studying the impact on soil microbial populations
 laboratory for bio-assays to study the impact on soil chemical and physical properties
 technical hall devoted to processes to performe pilote studies and dimension adapted devices of treatment

V. Examples OF STUDIES :

Studies financialy founded by public money

ARTWET : research project, founded by the European Union (Life). In this project RITTMO agroenvironnement aims at evaluating the impact on the Environment of sediments extracted from vineyards’ (bassin d’orage) after they were treated for reducing pesticides residues.

Studies conducted for private customers

To respect the confidentiality due to our customer, their names cannot be given :
 study biodegradability of a mixture of pesticides by microbial populations
 study the impact on the Environment of a mixture of pesticides after degradation by microbial populations

VI. Contacts :

Questions dealing with the impacts on the Environment : Dr Pascale CHENON

Questions dealing with transformation processes : Ing Nicolas THEVENIN ou Dr Mohammed BENBRAHIM