1. The problem of industrial sludge
Industrial or municipal sludge has waste status. As such, its disposal must comply with increasingly stringent regulations governing its regulatory classification, and its physico-chemical, organic and microbiological composition.
However, a waste sludge can become a product sludge if it successfully undergoes a certification procedure or meets a standard conferring this product status (as in the case of sludge compost, NFU 44-095).
The term "industrial sludge" covers all liquid, pasty or solid waste leaving the production site. There are two types of sludge, depending on their origin (see figure 1):
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The problem of industrial sludge