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Main Title Industrial Waste Guide to the Commercial Laundering Industry.
CORP Author Public Health Service, Washington, D.C. Div. of Sanitary Engineering Services.
Year Published 1948
Report Number PHS-Pub-509;
Stock Number PB-216 711
Additional Subjects ( Laundries ; Water pollution) ;
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NTIS  PB-216 711 Some EPA libraries have a fiche copy filed under the call number shown. 07/26/2022
Collation 13p
Abstract
Liquid wastes from commerical laundries which can contaminate water contain 'soil,' starch, dye traces, and lint removed from fabrics plus residuals of washing agents, alkali, and other chemicals. Apprecialbe waste reduction can be accomplished by avoiding over-use of washing agents and the control of washer loads in order to achieve the optimum ratio between washing agents and clothing load. A very large portion of commercial laundry wastes are discharged directly to municipal sewage systems and treated in admixture with domestic sewage. Considerable experimental work on the separate treatment of laundry wastes with trickling filters is reported in the literature. In actual practice, some laundry wastes are being treated by chemical flocculation and sedimentation. Further purification may be obtained by lagooning and sand filtration. (Author)