ABSTRACT
Repeated applications of chlordecone on banana elds for 20 years while not taking into account the long-term stability of the molecule have resulted in the accumulation of the molecule in soils (Chapter 3). In the case of nonplowed elds, the major fraction of chlordecone in soil stayed in the upper soil layers, while tillage and deep tillage (until 1 m depth with backhoe) integrated chlordecone throughout the depth of tillage (Clostre et al. 2014a). Nowadays, soils are reservoirs of chlordecone that act as starting points of its environmental fate. Given its high stability, the only signicant fate of chlordecone is consequently to transfer to other environmental compartments and to dilute in the environment.
