British Columbia’s Don Mavinic receives 2010 Manning Innovation Award for techno-fix that could help feed the world

Nutrient Recovery: Creating Value from Waste at Sewage Treatment Plants

Dr. Donald S. Mavinic is the creative force behind a unique technology to recover the vital nutrient phosphate from otherwise pipe-clogging and polluting compounds in wastewater. He and his research team at the University of British Columbia have received a 2010 Manning Innovation Award for a now globally applied technology in recovering nutrients (especially phosphorus) from wastewater.

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