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Primary waste treatment

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-022133

First steps in wastewater treatment; screens and sedimentation tanks are used to remove most materials that float or will settle. Primary treatment removes about 30 percent of carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand from domestic sewage.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-022133
FieldEnvironment
SubjectGeneral environmental
ReferencesTerms of Environment
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-022133",
  "term": "Primary waste treatment",
  "field": "Environment",
  "term_source": "Primary Waste Treatment",
  "definition": "First steps in wastewater treatment; screens and sedimentation tanks are used to remove most materials that float or will settle. Primary treatment removes about 30 percent of carbonaceous biochemical oxygen demand from domestic sewage.",
  "subject": "General environmental",
  "references": [
    "Terms of Environment"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/primary-waste-treatment/"
}

Record 21,537 of 29,894 in Environment terminology (MLC-0121). Request the full dataset.