We Should Expect More out of Our Sewage Sludge

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• 作者：Jordan Peccia ; Paul Westerhoff
• 刊名：Environmental Science & Technology
• 出版年：2015
• 出版时间：July 21, 2015
• 年：2015
• 卷：49
• 期：14
• 页码：8271-8276
• 全文大小：247K
• ISSN：1520-5851

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Sewage sludge and biosolids production and management are a central component of water and sanitation engineering. The culmination of previous incremental technologies and regulations aimed at solving a current treatment problem, rather than developing the practice for the higher goals of sustainability have resulted in sludge becoming an economic and social liability. Sludge management practice must shift from treatment of a liability toward recovery of the embedded energy and chemical assets, while continuing to protect the environment and human health. This shift will require new research, treatment technologies and infrastructure and must be guided by the application of green engineering principles to ensure economic, social, and environmental sustainability.