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Demonstration of an innovative process to produce biobased plastic out of cellulose recovered from domestic waste water (cellu2plaLIFE+)

Start date: Jun 1, 2014, End date: Jul 1, 2017,

Background Waste water treatment focuses on the quality of the effluent as well as on the efficiency of the treatment process. The negative impacts of waste water treatment (energy use, CO2 and sludge production) are accepted as inevitable. Nevertheless, waste water treatment plants (WWTP) have considerable ecological footprints. In the Netherlands, for e ...
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The Vertical Flow Reed Bed at Leidsche Rijn. A natural way to filter urban water. (VERBAL)

Start date: Jan 1, 2003, End date: Sep 30, 2007,

Background Approximately 20% of the surface water in the EU is severely threatened by pollution from nitrates and phosphates caused mainly by agricultural activities. These cause redundant algae growth, harming fish and sometimes humans. One solution developed to clean polluted surface water is the vertical flow reed bed. The vertical flow reed bed co ...
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