Within develo** countries, wastewater treatment (WWT) has improved in recent years but
remains a high priority sustainability challenge. Accordingly, life cycle assessment (LCA) …

Recovering resources from wastewater systems is increasingly being emphasised. Many
technologies exist or are under development for recycling nutrients such as nitrogen and …

With the growing concern of global warming, many water utilities are pioneering in mitigating
greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, with some water utilities aiming to achieve net-zero …

This paper provides a brief review on wastewater treatment system and the application of life
cycle assessment (LCA) for assessing its environmental performance. An extensive review …

Water scarcity is one of the major problems of the 21st century and one of the most sensitive
environmental issues in the coming decades due to the uneven distribution of resources …

A consequential life cycle assessment (LCA) was utilized to compare the environmental
impacts of food waste and sewage sludge management strategies. The strategies included …

Life cycle assessment (LCA) has been proved to act as a desirable tool to evaluate the
environmental impacts of wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs). However, the application of …

Municipal and agricultural organic waste can be treated to recover energy, nutrients, and
carbon through resource recovery and carbon capture (RRCC) technologies such as …

It is still not proven that treatment of sewage in a wastewater treatment plant (WWTP) is (in
every case) environmentally friendly. To address this matter, we have applied a state-of-the …

The present work analyses aspects of the carbon footprint of a large wastewater treatment
plant in central Italy. The plant mainly consists of a traditional activated sludge system along …