{"id":129602,"date":"2024-04-12T07:57:02","date_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:57:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/fi\/news\/europe-strengthens-rules-on-urban-wastewater-treatment\/"},"modified":"2024-04-12T07:57:02","modified_gmt":"2024-04-12T04:57:02","slug":"europe-strengthens-rules-on-urban-wastewater-treatment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/news\/europe-strengthens-rules-on-urban-wastewater-treatment\/","title":{"rendered":"Europe strengthens rules on urban wastewater treatment"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mp_wrapper\">\n  <div class=\"mepr-unauthorized-message\">\n    <p>You are unauthorized to view this page.<\/p>\n  <\/div>\n  <div class=\"mepr-login-form-wrap\">\n            \n<div class=\"mp_wrapper mp_login_form\">\n                  <!-- mp-login-form-start -->     <form name=\"mepr_loginform\" id=\"mepr_loginform\" class=\"mepr-form\" action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\" method=\"post\" data-trp-original-action=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/\">\n            <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_username\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n                              <label for=\"user_login\">Username<\/label>\n        <\/div>\n        <input type=\"text\" name=\"log\" id=\"user_login\" value=\"\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-form-row mepr_password\">\n        <div class=\"mp-form-label\">\n          <label for=\"user_pass\">Password<\/label>\n          <div class=\"mp-hide-pw\">\n            <input type=\"password\" name=\"pwd\" id=\"user_pass\" value=\"\" \/>\n            <button type=\"button\" class=\"button mp-hide-pw hide-if-no-js\" data-toggle=\"0\" aria-label=\"Show password\">\n              <span class=\"dashicons dashicons-visibility\" aria-hidden=\"true\"><\/span>\n            <\/button>\n          <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n            <div>\n        <label><input name=\"rememberme\" type=\"checkbox\" id=\"rememberme\" value=\"forever\" \/> Remember Me<\/label>\n      <\/div>\n      <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n      <div class=\"submit\">\n        <input type=\"submit\" name=\"wp-submit\" id=\"wp-submit\" class=\"button-primary mepr-share-button\" value=\"Log In\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"redirect_to\" value=\"\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129602\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_process_login_form\" value=\"true\" \/>\n        <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"mepr_is_login_page\" value=\"false\" \/>\n      <\/div>\n    <input type=\"hidden\" name=\"trp-form-language\" value=\"en\"\/><\/form>\n    <div class=\"mp-spacer\">&nbsp;<\/div>\n    <div class=\"mepr-login-actions\">\n        <a\n          href=\"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/login-2\/?action=forgot_password\"\n          title=\"Click here to reset your password\"\n        >\n          Forgot Password        <\/a>\n    <\/div>\n\n      \n    <!-- mp-login-form-end --> \n  <\/div>\n      <\/div>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"smart_content_wrapper\">\n<p>Since the introduction of regulations on urban wastewater treatment in the 1990s, water quality in the European Union has improved considerably. Today, 98% of wastewater is collected and treated under EU standards. However, various cases of inadequate wastewater treatment and the presence of chemicals that are difficult to treat (such as PFAS, known as \u2018forever chemicals\u2019) continue to impact the environment and the health of Europeans.<\/p>\n<p>In France, in December 2023, the Gironde prefecture banned the sale of oysters from the southwest Bay of Arcachon. On Tuesday 2 April, the Bordeaux judicial court blamed an inadequate sanitation system for the source of the contamination of these seafood products. By 2035, all settlements with at least 1,000 inhabitants will have to ensure the elimination of biodegradable organic matter such as food waste or faeces.<\/p>\n<p>Treatment to eliminate nitrogen and phosphorus will have to be in place for towns with more than 150,000 inhabitants by 2039 and then followed for towns with more than 10,000 inhabitants by 2045. Micropollutants will be subject to advanced treatment for municipalities with a population of more than 150,000 by 2045. The new Directive also introduces increasing targets for the share of renewable energy used in the operation of urban waste water treatment plants, with the ultimate aim of achieving 100% renewable powered-treatment, by 2045. To help cover the costs of additional treatment to remove micropollutants from urban wastewater, the directive includes the introduction of extended producer responsibility (EPR) for cosmetic products and medicinal products for human use.<\/p>\n<p>Source: <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/www.euractiv.com\/section\/energy-environment\/news\/europe-strengthens-rules-on-urban-wastewater-treatment\/\">Euractiv<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The post <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\/environmental-news-en\/4-508\/\">Europe strengthens rules on urban wastewater treatment<\/a> appeared first on <a rel=\"noopener\" href=\"https:\/\/vastuullisuusuutiset.fi\/fi\">Vastuullisuusuutiset.fi<\/a>.<\/p>","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[575,14131,4068],"class_list":["post-129602","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-environmental-news-en","tag-urban-wastewater","tag-water-treatment"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129602","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=129602"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/129602\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=129602"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=129602"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tietopankki.crnet.fi\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=129602"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}