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Treatment plants, lagoons and wetlands — how water is cleaned and what stays behind.
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Temple and NJIT researchers built a treatment cell that generates seven times more electricity than it consumes while recovering struvite. At bench scale.
Rain moves through buried waste and comes out carrying PFAS. Municipal wastewater plants were never designed to remove it. New York proposes making landfills do it on site.
Three ions that a treatment plant desperately wants gone will, under the right conditions, snap together into a crystal worth selling. The same crystal also destroys the pipes. Here is the mechanism.