Using everything but the oink
- From: Vol 10, Issue 4 (April 2009)
- Category: Market insight
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- Related Companies: BioteQ, General Electric (GE), HPD, New Logic Research Inc., Straits Chemicals, US Environmental Protection Agency and Veolia
Regulation is re-defining the way industry manages its entire water cycle. Gord Cope explores the diverse opportunities for extracting value from wastewater streams.
There is an old saying in the pork processing industry: “We use everything but the oink.”
In the wastewater sector, that is not yet the case – every day, millions of dollars of valuable metals and organic compounds are literally flushed away. Fortunately, however, tight finances and even tighter regulation mean that this trend is changing.
Recently, a Japanese wastewater treatment ...
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