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Wastewater treatment using recycled automobile tires
Liudmyla Melnik1 ,
Olha Rybalova2* ,
Olena Bryhada2 ,
Oleksii Ilinskyi2 ,
Anton Matsak2* ,
Bohdan Tsymbal2
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1 Laboratory of Urban and Production Wastewater, Ukrainian Scientific Research Institute of Ecological Problems, Kharkiv,
Ukraine
2 Department of Occupational Hazard and Environmental Safety, Faculty of Public Safety and Management, National University of Civil Defence of Ukraine, Cherkasy,
Ukraine
Received: 21 February 2025 | Revised: 13 April 2025 | Accepted: 14 April 2025 | Published online: 24 April 2025
© 2025 by the Author(s). This article is an open access article distributed under the terms and conditions of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License ( https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ )
Abstract
This study explores a promising phytoremediation method for wastewater treatment using various filtering material types, including used automobile tires and construction waste. Developing an affordable, eco-friendly solution to minimize the release of untreated wastewater into natural water sources by utilizing industrial byproducts and waste materials is a critical challenge. This research focuses on the scientific understanding of implementing phytoremediation facilities that utilize construction debris and discarded automobile tires as filtering media for wastewater treatment. The proposed filter materials (waste tires and construction waste) demonstrated the following treatment effectiveness: ammonium – 40%; nitrates, nitrites, chemical oxygen demand (COD), and suspended solids – 70%; organic pollutants by COD and biological oxygen demand – 70% and 28.5%, respectively; chlorides – 20%; sulfates – 23%; total iron – 99%; surfactants – 28%; and overall disinfection efficiency of nearly 99%. These results confirm the effectiveness of the proposed filtering media in enhancing wastewater treatment through phytoremediation.
Keywords
Environmental hazard
Waste
Automobile tires
Utilization
Wastewater
Treatment facility
Purification processes
Funding
None.
Conflict of interest
The authors declare no conflicts of interest.
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