Wastewater - Turning Problem to Solution

traditional wastewater treatment plant into a biorefinery at Billund in Denmark. With continued applied research and technological advances, effective policymaking, private sector involvement and successful business development, the prospects of extracting resources and energy from wastewater will accelerate.

and investments in the recovery of these resources from wastewater. The good news is that there are an increasing number of real-world examples demonstrating business thinking in a sector that traditionally relies on public funding (Otoo and Drechsel 2018). This is illustrated, for example, in the public-private partnership to convert a

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Figure 2.3: Circularity in wastewater management. Source: adapted from Smol, Adam and Preisner 2020.

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