BioMicrobics Recover® Greywater Treatment System:
Greywater can come from drained water from showers, baths, or sinks . Normally, this greywater used once travels through the plumbing mixing with blackwater (from toilets or kitchen sinks) to be combined as the total wastewater accumulated on a property. The combined sources of wastewater then gets treated at municipal sewage treatment plant or with an onsite wastewater treatment system.
If you can capture a portion of the greywater (say from the shower and/or bath drainage) and automatically treat and recycle for toilet flushing, this can conserve the water consumption by up to 30%*! Toilet flushing is the most suitable application for greywater, since in most homes the volume of water used to flush toilets closely matches the volume of greywater produced in a day from bathing. This allows for a smaller tank size since all the greywater generated is used that same day.
The Recover® system captures the greywater instead of leaving the home or building, applies filtration and adds a small amount of chlorine for disinfection. The greywater is then stored in a tank to be used to flush toilets, thus reducing potable water consumption for non-potable uses. The control panel auto-detects toilet leakage*, has an “Away” mode for shut off, an AI feature to learn the behavior of shower to toilet activity of the occupants, and a self-cleaning function of the screen for low maintenance and operation.
It’s not about the cost of water (although that’s nice too!), it’s the amount of fresh water sources that can be saved due to the volume and frequency of greywater produced and the number of times the toilet is flushed.