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VIDEO: Tour the Kaumera plant that creates bio-gum from water

Tuesday, 28 July 2020

Recovering a resource from wastewater

Have you ever wondered how a valuable resource such as a bio-gum can be extracted from the wastewater treatment process?

Well, now you can find out by taking a virtual tour of the world’s first Kaumera Nereda Gum treatment plant in the Netherlands.

Dutch waterboard and project partner Waterschap Rijn en IJssel has produced a video that shows a step-by-step guide on how sustainable gum is produced.

The raw materials plant in Zutphen is the “first facility in the world” to produce the gum, according to the organisation. Below you can watch the video.