Flushed toilet paper is worth money

WC paper reuse installation reaches the NOS news. Today official commissioning first cellulose production plant.

Flushed toilet paper is worth money

Make money with used toilet paper from sewage. It will happen in the North Holland Warmenhuizen. Today a special installation is being used for this purpose.

We wash 180,000 tons of toilet paper every year in the Netherlands through the toilet. Normally that is eventually burned. Sin, thought the water boards that purify the sewage. Because there is cellulose in it, a binder that comes in handy when making asphalt.

Zeefgoed - cellulose - Fijnzeven

Technology company Cirtec designed an installation to filter the cellulose from the sewage water. After small-scale trials in Groningen and Friesland, the binder from waste water is now being extracted for the first time on a large scale. This is done at the water treatment plant of the Hollands Noorderkwartier water board.

Bicycle path

“We can now really sell the cellulose to companies,” says Coos Wessels, technical director at Cirtec. According to him, there is already more demand than supply.

Customers include a company from Great Britain. This makes it into a biocomposite that ultimately ends up in products such as plastic frames and façade panels. The cellulose is also used for the production of insulation material and asphalt.

By way of trial, bicycle paths have already been constructed in Friesland and on Ameland last year with asphalt for which the ‘toilet paper cellulose’ has been used.

Profitable

Water boards are enthusiastic. “Purifying sewage water costs a lot of money and energy and you make sludge.This process means you need less energy and you make less sludge that needs to be incinerated again,” explains Noor Neij from the Hollands Noorderkwartier water board. “In addition, you make a raw material that represents value.”

Other water boards have already become interested in the installation. “We expect it to be profitable next year”, says Cirtec director Wessels.

Doorgespoeld wc-papier is geld waard

Flushed toilet paper is worth money

WC paper reuse installation reaches the NOS news. Today official commissioning first cellulose production plant.

Flushed toilet paper is worth money

Make money with used toilet paper from sewage. It will happen in the North Holland Warmenhuizen. Today a special installation is being used for this purpose.

We wash 180,000 tons of toilet paper every year in the Netherlands through the toilet. Normally that is eventually burned. Sin, thought the water boards that purify the sewage. Because there is cellulose in it, a binder that comes in handy when making asphalt.

Zeefgoed - cellulose - Fijnzeven

Technology company Cirtec designed an installation to filter the cellulose from the sewage water. After small-scale trials in Groningen and Friesland, the binder from waste water is now being extracted for the first time on a large scale. This is done at the water treatment plant of the Hollands Noorderkwartier water board.

Bicycle path

“We can now really sell the cellulose to companies,” says Coos Wessels, technical director at Cirtec. According to him, there is already more demand than supply.

Customers include a company from Great Britain. This makes it into a biocomposite that ultimately ends up in products such as plastic frames and façade panels. The cellulose is also used for the production of insulation material and asphalt.

By way of trial, bicycle paths have already been constructed in Friesland and on Ameland last year with asphalt for which the ‘toilet paper cellulose’ has been used.

Profitable

Water boards are enthusiastic. “Purifying sewage water costs a lot of money and energy and you make sludge.This process means you need less energy and you make less sludge that needs to be incinerated again,” explains Noor Neij from the Hollands Noorderkwartier water board. “In addition, you make a raw material that represents value.”

Other water boards have already become interested in the installation. “We expect it to be profitable next year”, says Cirtec director Wessels.

Doorgespoeld wc-papier is geld waard