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Wastewater treatment

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"Wastewater treatment plants take in wastewater, treat it and produce a liquid effluent containing primarily water and a solid material called sludge. Effluents are usually released to surface waters like rivers and the oceans, and sludge is disposed of in landfills, incinerators or is used by farmers as a fertilizer.

Due to the treatment processes that occur in the sewer and during waste treatment, the concentration of consumer product ingredients used in the home is greatly reduced by the time effluent reaches surface waters or sludge reaches soils"...

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