Imagine a system that transforms wastewater from an electrical appliance that many of us have in our homes, the dishwasher, into lymph that gives new life and produces vegetables. This is the content of a patent filed in 2019 our CIRC-UITS partner, by the Politecnico di Milano and the Università degli Studi di Roma Tor Vergata in collaboration with a number of companies.
The idea is to develop a system which can be associated with a dishwasher to regenerate its wastewater which can be reused in subsequent wash cycles and also to water vegetables. The dishwasher wastewater, regenerated using a specially designed biofilter, would help the plants to grow thanks to the mineralized nutrients it contains. Read the whole article here: https://www.frontiere.polimi.it/the-future-challenges-of-water-and-land-management/?lang=en