Sewage Sludge Management In Germany
sewage sludge management in germany
Source:https://www.umweltbundesamt.de/en/publikationen/sewage-sludge-management-in-germany
Author(s):Benjamin Wiechmann, Claudia Dienemann, Dr. Christian Kabbe, Simone Brandt, Dr. Ines Vogel, Dr. Andrea Roskosch
Introduction
What is sewage sludge?
In Germany, daily water use now reaches 120 litres per person. All of this water ultimately ends up in the sewage system, and from there is channelled to sewage treatment plants. At such plants, the sewage passes through screens and sieves and undergoes mechanical and biological purification,
the goal being to remove impurities from the sewage and to then channel the resulting purified water into waterbodies. The residue of this process is known as
sewage sludge, which can occur in anhydrous, dried or other processed forms.
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