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Meet Australia’s first homegrown, poo-loving superbugs that are cleaning Brisbane’s sewage – ABC News

They’re the poo-loving superbugs that are greening Queensland’s sewage systems with their big appetite. Now a Brisbane wastewater plant has farmed enough Anammox…

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A superbug that feeds on nutrients in sewage water to clean it has been grown from scratch at a wastewater plant in Brisbane.
Key points:

  • Anammox bugs feed on nutrients found in poo, reducing the need for chemicals in wastewater plants
  • The 10-year project is an Australian first
  • The bugs will soon treat sewage across Australia in a bid to help manage population growth

It is the first time Anammox bugs have been farmed in Australia and it took Urban Utilities five years to grow the amount needed for…

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