Our work concerns the hazardous chlorinated organics found in industrial waste discharges that are a potential threat to the environment. It is well known that a chemical reduction/oxidation process can convert chemically hazardous contaminants to non-hazardous or less toxic compounds that are more stable, less mobile, and/or inert.  We, however, introduce a new class of a treatment process – named the ARP or Advanced Reduction Process – which is a combination of chemical reduction and activation. It is our contention that this approach will lead to the production of highly reactive reducing free radicals for rapid and effective reductive dechlorination and that the ARP will be cost-effective and competitive.  We are thus setting up and developing the appropriate analytical and experimental procedures. We address a task specific to Qatar; we screen potential ARPs and identify those that are most effective in degrading target compounds detected at Qatar industrial sites (most probably 1, 2-dichloroethane and vinyl chloride). We also look at the fundamental data on the stoichiometry and kinetics of contaminant degradation in general and hence suggest the optimal conditions for applying promising ARPs.