Less Land Application
A typical secondary wastewater treatment plant serving a million people generates 25 football fields -- each one metre deep -- of biosolids each year. With MicroSludge, a WWTP can reduce the quantity of biosolids for disposal by an additional 60%. More on reducing biosolids.

Meets Strict Environmental Standards
MicroSludge helps to enable a secondary wastewater treatment plant to meet the strict biosolids standards set by environmental regulators.

Cleaner Water
MicroSludge reduces the biological oxygen demand (BOD) of the filtrate returned to the plant's head works. This lower load allows the plant to perform better. There are less biosolid residuals for disposal and they are more stable, generate less odours and contain lower pathogen levels. Consequently, surface and ground water are far less impacted by the land application of the residuals.

Cleaner Air
MicroSludge greatly reduces the amount of greenhouse gases released into the atmosphere. Methane is generated in quantities that can be used by the wastewater treatment plants rather than flared as waste, or allowed to slowly escape from biosolids in landfills. Odours from the wastewater treatment plant and from residuals are minimized, and because less solids need to be transported for dumping, truck emissions are also significantly reduced.

Enhanced Public Health
MicroSludge's effectiveness in the destruction of pathogens (e.g. salmonella and E-coli) and viruses in WAS means public health is better protected.

Sustainable Waste-to-Energy
By enabling an anaerobic digester to more quickly and completely generate biogas, MicroSludge generates electrical and heat energy in surplus of its processing requirements. MicroSludge allows wastewater treatment plants to reduce their electrical and heat energy costs.