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By Gadi Rothenberg

Inaugural lecture brought at the appointment to the chair of Heterogeneous Catalysis and Sustainable Chemistry on the Van 't Hoff Institute for Molecular Sciences, college of Amsterdam on Friday 29 may perhaps 2009

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Evaporate the liquid and landfill the solids—Particularly if you live in a hot, dry climate, it may be feasible to dump nasty/ undesirable liquids in a bucket, then landfill the minute amount of solids left after the liquid evaporates. • Sell them—I once cleaned all the household toxins out of my parents' house and had them cued up in front to take to the toxic waste disposal. a powerful illustration of the "toxic = good" brainwashing mentioned previously. Ch. 5: Greywater in the Landscape- If dispersal is youronly interest, you can skip to the Plants for Greywater Treatment/Disposal section, Conversely, if you ire only interested in reuse, you can read the Reuse section and skip the Disposal one.

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In these scenarios v, there is an air gap at the end of the appliance drain hose, as with conventional plumbing The advantage is that the load on the pump is the same minimal load the appliance was d designed for. ] Appliance pulmps can also be used to move greywater long distances horizontally and short distances vertically. The appeal is that you don't have to buy any additional hardware, surge tank, or lilt r. ) For details, see D rumless Laundry, Chapter 7. Read this closeli, [ifyou are cutting into your plumbing or building a new house.

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