From sewage to ‘sugar’ – United Utilities achieves UK first - Water Magazine

From sewage to ‘sugar’ – United Utilities achieves UK first - Water Magazine

United Utilities has achieved a UK first at Blackburn Wastewater Treatment Works by successfully trialling a groundbreaking technology to extract naturally occurring glucose from sewage. The technology captures toilet paper from the untreated sewage and processes it to break it down into a glucose substance which could be used as a lower carbon product in industrial processes. The trial has also demonstrated that the technology also has potentia…