Elements and Compounds on Abandoned Industrial Sites

Abandoned contamination sites include old garbage dumps and industrial production residues, contaminants from industrial facilities, areas in the vicinity of smoke stacks and discharge pipes, the concomitant contaminations and consequences of two world wars, military installations of the past and present, leaking wastewater lines, and buildings that were constructed with materials that have adverse effects on human health. 

From a regulatory perspective, abandoned landfills are abandoned and inactive waste disposal sites, regardless of the point in time at which they were rendered inactive, illegal waste disposal sites that existed before the enactment of the respective waste laws (so-called illegal dumps ) and other abandoned/inactive dumps or fills whereas abandoned contamination sites are sites of inactive installations that handled environmentally hazardous substances (i.e., these are primarily old industrial and commercial facilities). 

On such industrial sites, production residues were often superficially buried, or production input, intermediate, and end-products were stored without any protective 

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