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Article: Co-composting of manure with fat, oil, and grease: microbial fingerprinting and phytotoxicity evaluation.(Report)
- Article from:
- Canadian Journal of Civil Engineering
- Article date:
- February 1, 2009
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Introduction
In Kuwait, slaughterhouses have been recycling their wastewater since the mid-1990s. This industrial process creates a residue called FOG (fat, oil, and grease). Long-established disposal methods for FOG waste streams include discharging to sanitary sewers, stabilization with concrete and disposal in landfills. It is well documented that discharging FOG into the sewer systems causes obstruction of the sewer lines, increases BOD loading to the wastewater treatment plants, increases costs associated with line protection, and inhibits biological treatment at the wastewater plant (Cammarota and Freire 2006). With the uncontrollable generation of FOG ...