{"id":1631,"date":"2025-08-30T08:54:48","date_gmt":"2025-08-30T06:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/linnovazione-necessaria-per-le-citta-del-futuro-3\/"},"modified":"2025-12-10T09:08:56","modified_gmt":"2025-12-10T08:08:56","slug":"linnovazione-necessaria-per-le-citta-del-futuro-3","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/linnovazione-necessaria-per-le-citta-del-futuro-3\/","title":{"rendered":"The Necessary Innovation for the Cities of the Future"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-evidenzio-columns\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"row\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-evidenzio-column col-12 col-md-12 col-lg\">\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-medium mb-3\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"300\" height=\"56\" src=\"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-alle-18.16.55-300x56.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-866\" srcset=\"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-alle-18.16.55-300x56.png 300w, https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/Screenshot-2025-10-21-alle-18.16.55.png 648w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-3\"><strong>Brussels<\/strong> \u2013 The wastewater treatment sector in Europe is at a turning point. The recent adoption of <strong>Directive (EU) 2024\/3019<\/strong>, which revises the legislation on urban wastewater treatment, imposes a radical paradigm shift on large metropolitan areas: <strong>sewage sludge is no longer just waste, but a strategic resource.<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>The key measure accelerating the transition is set for December 31, 2028.<\/strong> By this date, Member States must implement Extended Producer Responsibility (EPR), obliging manufacturers of pharmaceuticals and cosmetics to cover 80% of the costs for quaternary treatment (fourth phase). <strong>The goal is to purify water from micropollutants before they end up in the sludge<\/strong>, making the residual material significantly cleaner.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This superior quality of sludge clears the way for advanced recovery systems. These technologies are crucial for two objectives of the Directive:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><strong>Recovery of Raw Materials:<\/strong> extracting vital nutrients such as phosphorus and nitrogen for the production of sustainable fertilizers, reducing dependence on external sources.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-3\"><strong>Energy Neutrality:<\/strong> exploiting the organic component of sludge for biogas production, with the goal of making treatment plants energy neutral by 2040.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"mb-3\">Essentially, <strong>2028 represents a point of no return<\/strong>: EPR ensures cleaner sludge, while the push for recovery mandates the adoption of advanced industrial processes that transform disposal costs into circular economy opportunities.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div><\/div><\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The wastewater treatment sector in Europe is at a turning point. The recent adoption of Directive (EU) 2024\/3019, which revises the legislation on urban wastewater treatment, imposes a radical paradigm shift on large metropolitan areas: sewage sludge is no longer just waste, but a strategic resource.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1631"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1801,"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1631\/revisions\/1801"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/carborem.greenthesisgroup.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}