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Jul 1, 2016
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The Resource Economic Dimension of Wastewater Treatment vs. Green Technologies

Publication: Green Technologies for Sustainable Water Management

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This chapter describes a resource economic approach to evaluate the economic value of the wastewater borne resources, as well as a model to determine the pollution dependent treatment costs for single wastewater parameters. Such a model can be used as an economic steering instrument for strengthening the implementation of green technologies. Wastewater is seen primarily as a source of potentially usable resources rather than a compound of substances that require disposal. The fundamental conditions for a material-specific and partial-stream-specific quantification of wastewater treatment costs are considered as the starting point for the determination of degrees of economic freedom in respect of the future realization of material flow separation concepts. A new approach to evaluation of economic potential of resources contained in the different partial wastewater streams indicates an economic margin, which can be used for a successive introduction of stream separating concepts with subsequent recycling.

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