Vol.:(0123456789) 1 3 Waste Biomass Valor DOI 10.1007/s12649-017-0058-z ORIGINAL PAPER Landfll Leachate Efects on Germination and Seedling Growth of Hemp Cultivars (Cannabis Sativa L.) Magdalena Daria Vaverková 1  · Jan Zloch 1  · Dana Adamcová 1  · Maja Radziemska 2  · Tomáš Vyhnánek 3  · Václav Trojan 3  · Jan Winkler 3  · Biljana Đorđević 3  · Jakub Elbl 4  · Martin Brtnický 4   Received: 7 June 2017 / Accepted: 22 August 2017 © Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2017 registered in the European Union: Tiborszállási (Hungary), Bialobrzeska (Poland) and Monoica (Hungary). The seeds were used for modifed standard mustard germination test. The germination of hemp cultivars was tested using the hydroponics medium supplemented with leachate 25, 50, 75, 90 and 100%. The control seeds were growing on untreated nutrient medium under the same condition. The nature of germination of seeds was studied. Based on the obtained results, it can be concluded that the tested samples of lea- chate were toxic for hemp cultivars (C. sativa L.). Growth inhibition (%) at the studied samples ranged from −6.48 to 75.78%. Abstract Landfll leachate is one of the major sources of pollutions discharged into the environment. It is composed from a complex mixture of chemicals and handling typically involves treatment either on-site or at a wastewater treatment plants but phytoremediation is a promising method. The aim of this work was to evaluate the potential of agronomic plant species with high annual biomass yield (Cannabis sativa L.) for toxicity removal from landfll leachate. Raw leachate collected from the pond of untreated leachate at sanitary landfll in Czech Republic was used in the study. The hemp cultivation experiments were performed in the beginning of 2017 under laboratory conditions using three hemp cultivars * Magdalena Daria Vaverková magda.vaverkova@uake.cz 1 Department of Applied and Landscape Ecology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic 2 Department of Environmental Improvement, Faculty of Civil and Environmental Engineering, Warsaw University of Life Sciences, Nowoursynowska 159, 02-776 Warsaw, Poland 3 Department of Plant Biology, Faculty of AgriSciences, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic 4 Department of Geology and Pedology, Faculty of Forestry and Wood Technology, Mendel University in Brno, Zemědělská 1/1665, 613 00 Brno, Czech Republic