29. April 2023

New data on microplastic removal from wastewater

Wastewater treatment plants are important point sources of microplastics and micropollutants into the environment. Many wastewater treatment plants will be required to upgrade their facilities with an advanced treatment step to remove micropollutants, but these processes do not target microplastic removal. We therefore investigated the ability of two advanced treatment methods and our novel Wasser 3.0 PE-X® process to remove microplastics at the wastewater treatment plant in Landau, Germany. Read more about the key finding of our study, which was recently published open access in MDPI Water.
26. January 2023

EU Urban Wastewater Treatment Directive

The EU directive on urban wastewater (Council Directive 91/271/EEC) is decisive for the control and prevention of pollution. Although it has led to improvements in water quality across Europe since its introduction in 1991, a lot of pollution is still not restricted or regulated, e.g. Micropollutants and microplastics. Therefore, at the end of 2022, the EU published a proposal for a revised directive on the treatment of urban wastewater. More about this in the blog.
10. February 2021

Quick and efficient: PFAS analysis

Perfluorocarboxylic acids (PFCAs) are anthropogenic organic compounds with very unique and useful properties, e.g. surfactant properties and immense stability. These substances are nowadays widely used in many industrial and consumer products. Analytical methods show limitations, a new derivatization method could help.
13. December 2020

What is the state of our waters?

Our lakes and rivers, our ocean and our groundwater are in many places not in a good condition. More concretely: In health-threatening conditions for all life that comes into contact with it. All over the world, people suffer from too much or too little water. We dare to start.