Microplastics van een textielwasserij en de verwijdering in een RWZI

Hoewel de rwzi’s Amsterdam-West en Horstermeer meer dan 99,8% van de microplastics verwijderen, blijft het absolute aantal dat in het milieu terechtkomt aanzienlijk. Tevens bleek dat één industriële textielwasserij verantwoordelijk is voor 13% van het totale aantal microplastics dat de rioolwaterzuivering binnenkomt.

Wastewater as a resource: Strategies to recover resources from Amsterdam’s wastewater

Resources are becoming scarce. Therefore, reuse of resources is becoming more and more attractive. Wastewater can be used as a resource, since it contains many resources like organic matter, phosphorus, nitrogen, heavy metals, thermal energy, etc. This study focused on the reuse of organic matter and phosphorus from Amsterdam’s wastewater. There...

Amsterdam as a Sustainable European Metropolis: Integration of Water, Energy and Material Flows

Amsterdam has the ambition to develop as a competitive and sustainable European metropolis. The flows of energy, water and resources within the urban environment have a large potential to contribute to this ambition. The overall mass balances of phosphate, food, water, energy and material imports in the Amsterdam region have already been mapped....