Treatment of Effluents from Meat, Vegetable and Soft Drinks Processing using Constructed Wetlands

Abstract

The food and beverages industry, together with oil and gas as well as the mining industry, is expected to account for more than half the world´s expenditure on wastewater treatment technology. The wastewater resulting from the manufacturing of the produced foods and beverages commonly contains high amounts of organic matter and needs to be treated properly in order to conserve the world´s freshwater resources and environment in general Analytical Databases. This chapter describes the use of constructed wetlands (CWs) for treatment of four exemplary types of wastewater in this industry, namely from (a) slaughterhouse and meat processing; (b) potato processing; (c) molasses; and (d) coffee processing.