World Water Day 2023: How Recycling Phosphorus Can Help Feed the World
As the world’s population continues to grow, mankind needs to produce more food.There is therefore an ever-increasing demand for synthetic and mineral fertilizers suchas phosphorus. Phosphorus however is one of the nutrients in wastewater that mankindis wasting into our surface waters. We extract the mineral phosphorus from mines. The production of phosphorus fertilizerrequires the use of sulfuric acid. It is...