Wastewater Treatment Basics Step 6
You're Done, Well Not Quite, Rinse Repeat
So what is this Step 6 anyway?
Yes, it's not really a step but a good opportunity to emphasize how wastewater treatment is fast becoming a closed loop system, and in many respects always was. For example, dairy and municipal sludge has been used as fertilizer for decades and recycled wastewater has been used in agriculture as well. With a closed loop system, "waste" is fed back into the production process, or other complimentary production processes.
This is a primary tenet of industrial ecology, that waste is no longer produced and processes can therefore become truly sustainable. There is another system that is closed loop from which we can learn more about ways to become sustainable. This system is the natural earth itself, our ecological environment works in the same way. There is no waste.
So we really are only mimicking natural processes already happening all around us. We mention it here to point out that the overall big picture approach to industrial wastewater treatment can shift our way of thinking away from "consumption" and toward "cyclic" processes that mimic nature, an endless repeating process that is a part of a looped industrial chain.
The bottom line? A better bottom line that means Higher Profits! Industrial ecology and profitability are not only not mutually exclusive, but highly complimentary. Wastewater optimization is key.
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