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Session: Enhancing marketability of recovered resources from the water cycle

Theme: Energy transition and resource recovery
Organiser: KWR (NextGen)

Other organisations: KWR, AquaMinerals, Strane, WssTP (NextGen), National Technical University of Athens (Hydrousa, SMART-Plant).

Resource recovery from wastewater is a key Circular Economy (CE) concept. The recovery is challenging due to high dilution, limited economic value, market quality issues and  relatively high costs for recovering products. Although processes are available to recover materials, their implementation is hampered by unclear governance structures, reluctance of water companies to fully implement resource recovery in their water treatment, limited acceptance of products in e.g. agriculture, and a lack of cooperation over the entire value chain from producers to market and consumers.

The workshop will provide valuable insights on how to organise cooperation between producers and consumers, raise acceptance of the products and assure adequate quality, and fulfil legal requirements for successful implementation of resource recovery. Research outcomes from a number of EU H2020 projects developing innovative wastewater resource recovery technologies and business approaches (NextGen, Project O, Hydrousa, Smart-Plant) will be presented, followed by a panel discussion with the audience.