A group of researchers is on the way to revolutionizing what biomass from wastewater treatment plants can be used for.

"Most people think nanoplastics enter wastewater treatment plants as nanoplastics. But we're showing that nanoplastics can be formed during wastewater treatment through microbial activity.

Wastewater treatment equipment is used to treat, remediate, and process effluent wastewater. By definition, wastewater carries a mixture of dissolved or suspended solids from residences, agriculture, ...

The enzyme could be used by wastewater treatment plants to break apart microplastic particles and upcycle plastic waste. Next, the researchers used protein analysis to identify the key enzyme that ...

In 2023, Eureka announced it had extracted 97% pure lithium carbonate from fracking wastewater. But just a year later, the wastewater treatment ... the banned but common practice of spreading ...

To identify virus levels and larger trends, the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention relies on a large network of sampling sites at wastewater treatment facilities across the country.

While nationwide COVID-19 cases have dwindled in recent weeks, wastewater detections of the virus still remain "very high" in certain states. Newsweek have revealed this variability in a map based ...

Typically, in effluent treatment plants (ETPs), high energy consumption is required for treating wastewater. However, by integrating capacitive MFCs into ETPs, we can reduce power consumption ...

Additionally, wastewater treatment alone represents roughly a quarter of the sector's electricity consumption. As countries face not only freshwater supply and demand challenges but also ...

The Environmental Protection Agency has said the slow pace of delivery of wastewater treatment upgrades by Uisce Éireann is unacceptable. It says the more it delays fixing the issues causing ...