MICROPOLLUTANTS: THE NEXT CHALLENGE FOR TEXTILE WASTEWATER TREATMENT
Micropollutants are organic or mineral substances and organisms contaminating the environment due to their toxic, persistent and bioaccumulative properties. Being not completely biodegradable, they cannot be removed with conventional wastewater treatment technologies. Moreover, the continued release of micropollutants in wastewater effluent is of considerable concern since contaminants are bioaccumulating and even forming new mixtures in our waters. Micropollutants are in many products used on a daily basis, including manufacturing chemicals.
Nowadays research on micropollutants is still far away from producing reliable results: on one side diagnostics techniques still need to be standardised and, on the other, effective treatment technologies still need to be tested and, sometimes developed.
In October Lariana Depur has signed a research agreement with Centro Tessile Serico to start investigating the micropollutant topic in order to identify the critical substances detectable in the influent and effluent of the sewage treatment plants in the Como textile district.