Not exact matches
The
liquid concentrate constitutes a small wastewater stream, recycled to add to the fresh solid
waste in the slurry - making stage, or recycled to a TAR pre-treatment, disposed of in a conventional anaerobic / aerobic or aerobic wastewater treatment plant, or
treated in a dedicated wastewater treatment plant (RO - concentration / evaporator).
Currently,
liquid waste generated within the region are discharged into open water bodies due to the lack of a facility to
treat it.
The treatment plant has the capacity to
treat 2000 cubic meters of
liquid waste from 200 cesspit emptiers, daily.
A crowd favorite, Rebecca Bray and Britta Riley's exploration of the positive potential in urine, explored earlier on Treehugger, the «drinkpeedrinkpeedrinkpee» installation demonstrates a way of
treating urine so that, instead of polluting our waterways with algal blooms, our high nitrogen, high phosphorus
liquid waste can be used to provide plant nutrients.
Rainwater collection will provide all drinking water, and all
waste, both
liquid and solid, will be
treated and managed on - site.
«Safe and productive use of solid and
liquid waste» implies using rainwater or wastewater (
treated or untreated) and organic
waste (including human / animal excreta) in small - scale urban and peri-urban agricultural production, as part of resilient urban development.