waste treatment
Cleaning dirty water
Waste treatment is the processing of sewage, industrial effluent, or other discarded materials to reduce their harmful effects before release into the environment.
Treatment may be physical, chemical, or biological: The city upgraded its waste treatment facilities to handle increased demand.
A waste treatment plant processes sewage or industrial waste on a large scale.
- incinerationBurning waste to ash
- compostingDecomposing organic matter deliberately
- neutralizationCanceling opposing forces
- landfillsEngineered waste disposal sites
- dump siteWaste disposal location
vermiculture · recycling centers · compaction · filtration · toxic runoff · ozonation · centrifugation · detoxification · pyrolysis · oxidation · sorting · settling · clarifier · water purification · sludge · septic tank · tanks · bacteria
- polar facilitiesresearch station, weather station, ice station, base camp, field camp
- sanitationsewage, sewers, cleaning, sewer, disinfecting
- waste managementtrash, garbage, rubbish, refuse, litter
- ecosystem servicespollination, carbon sequestration, water purification, climate regulation, air purification
- hazmathazmat suit, hazmat, hazardous materials, biohazard, dangerous goods
- sanitation systemsseptic tank, septic system, sewage system, sewer, drain
waste treatmentpollution
Environmental harm from waste
contamination · environmental degradation · toxic dumping · industrial pollution · fouling