A Novel Approach of Cleaner Production Concepts to Evaluate Promising Technologies for Sludge Reduction in Wastewater Treatment Plants

Excess sludge has been becoming one of the great environmental pressures on the future of sludge treatment and disposal. An ideal way to solve sludge-associated problems is to minimize sludge production rather than the post-treatment of the sludge produced. Cleaner Production (CP) has been successful in application for waste reduction of industries.