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Possible ecological loads on the croatian water systems caused by scouring domestic wool

Wool and wastewaters from scouring can be a mixed blessing – a useful technological raw material or an environmental problem. If wool is scoured with no control, as the case most often is in Croatia, the wastewater released could endanger the environmental stability of the existing water systems. Since the interest has been growing recently for processing domestic wool, which also presents a considerable hazard of polluting water because of unskilled scouring and uncontrolled wastewater release into the natural water flows, we have organised investigations aimed at determining potentially dangerous ecological loads on the Croatian water systems, caused by scouring domestic wool. The results obtained indicate that improper disposal of the wool and/or uncontrolled release of waste water from scouring present a considerable environmental hazard.

ecological load; environmental protection; wool scouring; wastewater; wastewater treatment

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