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Can we recover valuable chemicals from sewage?

A chemical engineer wants to make the term ‘wastewater’ obsolete by extracting usable chemicals to create fertilizers, disinfectants and more.

A drain pipe empties into Jamaica Bay along the eastern shore of the Gateway National Recreation Area National Park.

Reuters/Mike Segar

A chemical engineer wants to make the term ‘wastewater’ obsolete by extracting usable chemicals to create fertilizers, disinfectants and more.

Contact Information

Rob Jordan
Associate Editor, Environment and Sustainability, Woods Institute
rjordan@stanford.edu