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Date Published: 07/12/2021
ARCHIVED - Spanish project to eliminate microplastics from water wins prestigious award
The initiative could be rolled out to a number of different industries in Spain and the rest of the world
A Spanish project has this week received an important accolade for their contribution to the environment by designing a system to quantify, identify and eliminate microplastics from marine, fresh and residual waters, thus further protecting aquatic life.
Captoplastic, which was developed by the University of Madrid, has won the Global eAwards 2021 prize, in which 1,560 initiatives from a dozen European and Latin American countries have participated.
Currently, one of the main problems of wastewater treatment plants in Spain and around the world is that they do not have the capacity to separate and retain microplastics, due to their small size, which inevitably end up being released into the marine environment. The newly awarded initiative allows treatment plants to retain these materials.
The project was celebrated for its “technological innovation and its great environmental impact” which will allow plants to catch almost 100% of plastic that measures less than five millimetres, thus contributing greatly to solving the “serious problem of environmental contamination”.
Having won the national competition, Spain will move on to the international phase of the awards, which could lead to an investment of 60,000 euros to apply this technology to wastewater treatment plants (WWTP).
The applications of this initiative could be far-reaching, because in addition to removing microplastics from treated water, the technology could also be used in drinking water plants, water bottling facilities, textile and recycling plants.
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