Carbon dioxide sequestration and its long-term immobilisation in biomass is recently an extremely significant problem. Its greatest reserves occur in forests growing all over the globe. A human being, through their conscious action, ought to affect, among other things, the amount of carbon dioxide discharged into the atmosphere and its rational management. Here, quite a good solution seems to be the immobilisation of CO2 in biomass of plants, and in particular, in trees, characterised by their longevity, which are used most frequently for that purpose.

Such carbon dioxide management allows for its several-decade immobilisation within living plants, while a further processing of wood mass allows for halting it for consecutive years in products manufactured. Additionally, in the case when within a selected land planted with trees the effluent irrigation is being carried out, simultaneous sewage treatment is also an advantage. By using plants characterised by intense increment in biomass within facilities, also biogens occurring in effluents may be effectively removed.

In the analysed case, sewage treatment consisted in entry of household sewage into a prepared surface which was previously subject to mechanical purification. All the sections were sown with grass mixture and plantings of poplar were used. Observations were made during the period of 17 years. The effluents entered onto the surface of the sections and the effluents outflowing from the facility were subject to a physicochemical analysis in order to determine the operational efficiency of a plant - soil treatment system. Also, a threefold inventory of a forest stand was made in order to determine the increment in trees.

The last inventory was made in 2014. Based on dendrological characteristics, the average volume of wood mass obtained from the land irrigated with effluents was assessed.

A rational management of effluents on the grounds without any central drainage allows for a parallel solution to some problems. First of all, purification of effluents in a natural environment by closing the matter cycle, and additionally contributing to the limitation of carbon dioxide emission by its halting in plant biomass.

Grunt, sztucznie skażony trichloroetylenem (TCE), został oczyszczony za pomocą bioremediacj i przebiegającej w środowisku redukcyjnym, w warunkach beztlenowych. W celu określenia optymalnych parametrów procesu bioremcdiacji przeprowadzono badania laboratoryjne. Na ich podstawie wybrano mieszaninę osadów pochodzących ze ścieków komunalnych jako inoculum. Zaprojektowano i zbudowano bioreaktor przeznaczony do oczyszczania gruntu z rozpuszczalników chlorowanych. Jego komora o objętości 6 m3, została wyposażona w układy recyrkulacji gazu i odcieku oraz system akwizycji danych pomiarowych. Bioreaktor pracował jako reaktor ze złożem stałym o ciągłym przepływie gazu. Podczas 28 tygodni 4 Mg gruntu skażonego trichloroetylenem o stężeniu 350 mg/kg gruntu zostały całkowicie oczyszczone w warunkach beztlenowych. Oznaczone w próbkach gazowych i ciekłych stężenia TCE, dichloroetylenu (OCE), chlorku winylu (VC) i etylenu (ETH) wskazują, że w bioreaktorze nastąpiła stopniowa dehalogenacja trichloroetylenu do etylenu. Potwierdza to również wzrastające stężenie jonu chlorkowego w odcieku.