Tag: wastewater

Water Resource Recovery Leader: Delta Diablo

What does it take to be a Water Resource Recovery leader? Easy, first recover as much water from wastewater influent, second utilizing the resources in the waste to do something sustainable, third recover power used by some renewable process, and fourth, be a leader while doing so.

Who comes to mind when this applied? Delta Diablo.

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Fruit labels are polluting the environment

You go to the store and pick out the most delicious looking tomato. The clerk scans its’ barcode and you take it home. When you’re ready to eat it, you wash it in the sink and that little barcode comes flying off and right down the drain it goes. You think nothing of it. “Out of sight, out of mind.”

Except that sticker/label went somewhere. In most cases, it will travel through miles of underground pipe, making its way to a wastewater treatment plant where it will go from tank to tank through various pipes and eventually the water it’s floating in will be clean enough to be dumped into a river or bay and eventually, it will end up in the ocean.

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