CLEANUP 2026 tHEMES

The Themes for Cleanup 2026 are:

  • PFAS Management in a Changing Regulatory Landscape: Innovations, Policies, and Global Perspectives

  • Legacy and Emerging Contaminants
    -  Legacy Contaminants and Contaminated Sites 

  • Legacy and Emerging Contaminants 1.2
    - Emerging and Recently Emerged Contaminants 

  • Climate Change and Contaminant Behaviour 
    - Climate Stressors and Environmental Risk: A Converging Crisis 
    - Sea water intrusion and salinisation impacts    
    - Climate-modulated contaminant dynamics    
    - Use of contaminant cells     
    - Geochemical shifts and remediation under climate variability 

  • Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) and Modern Challenges
    -  Persistent Organic Contaminants (Old and New): Trends, Risks, and Regulatory Frontiers 

  • Planetary Boundaries and Environmental Exceedances 
    - Planetary Boundaries: Mapping the Edge of Safe Operating Spaces 

  • Mixtures and Complexity in Environmental Systems
    - Contaminant Mixtures: Synergistic Effects, Risk Assessment, and Regulatory Gaps     
    - Analytical challenges and modelling frameworks    
    - Real-world exposure scenarios 
    - Assessment tools to deal with the mixture  

  • Chemical Bioavailability: Risk Assessment and One Health Perspective
    - Innovation in Remediation Science and Technology
    - Ground water and Soil Remediation: Innovation, Scale-Up, and Long-Term Effectiveness
    - In situ and ex situ approaches
    - Green remediation and sustainability metrics

  • Case Studies and Lessons from the Field
     - Waste Reuse and Risk: Navigating Contaminants in the Circular Economy and Sustainability  

  • Agrichemical and Chemical Legacies: Managing Persistent Pollutants in Productive Landscape
     


*Themes may be changed at the discretion of the Organising Committee