Centre for Environmental Research: Waste and Circular Economy and Environmental Safety – Wastewater

The project is active between 2021 and 2026; it is funded by the Technology Agency of the Czech Republic, within the Environment for Life Programme. Its centre ( a consortium of eight research organizations and universities) focuses on conducting research in areas related to the Czech Republic's transition from a linear to a circular economic model. This transition requires research in new, as yet unresolved areas, such as material flows of raw materials, innovative technologies aimed at minimizing the use of primary raw materials in production, maximum material recovery and utilization of waste, by-products and intermediates, product eco-design, monitoring and evaluation of not only environmental, but also socio-economic processes. In the field of wastewater and sludge, the project focuses on the issue of pollution of the aquatic environment by medicinal substances, their residues, metabolites, and possibly other hazardous substances, as well as the risk of microbial load of surface waters with wastewater from WWTPs. Part of the solution is research into the possibilities of reducing the input of medicinal substances from concentrated sources into wastewater, and disposal of concentrated medicinal solutions in a different way.

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Project background

Analysis of the development and potential of waste and circular economy in the Czech Republic in the context of the strategic direction of the Czech Republic, prediction of further development, and setting priorities in accordance with the main policies of the Czech Republic and the EU.

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Project aims

The aim of the project is to build a long-term, professional, interdisciplinary, research base consisting of key research organizations with expertise and a professional capacity for conducting research in the field of waste and circular economy in a broader context. In the field of wastewater and sludge, processes and procedures will be sought to minimize the contamination of wastewater and sludge with medicinal substances from areas with a higher incidence (hot-spots – old people’s homes, hospitals, etc.) and their disposal by means other than discharge into municipal wastewater, the possibility of removing medicinal substances from treated wastewater at the WWTP.

Project methodology

Ten institutions are participating in the project. The project solution is based on twelve work packages, for which selected project partners are responsible. TGM WRI is responsible for work package 1C – Biodegradable Waste and 2A – Contamination of the aquatic environment. TGM WRI is a co-researcher in packages 1B – New types of waste and technologies, and 2B – Contamination of the bedrock environment.

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