Reuse alternatives for meat processing industry wastewater

Continuous population growth, global warming, and rapidly industrialization cause to the water shortage. Nowadays, water shortage is a very significant problem. Depending on this problem, the present water sources get limited. And these limited water sources must be protected. Therefore, some precautions must be taken such as water reclamation and reuse. In this thesis, instead of discharging the treated wastewater, water reclamation and reuse alternatives have been researched. Thus, the effluent values that taken from the wastewater treatment plant which built in TANET meat industry plant were investigated. In the first chapters, the knowledges were given about water shortage problem, wastewater reuse in industry, agricultural applications of reclaimed water, groundwater recharge with reclaimed water, wastewater reuse for the other applications, wastewater reuse experience around the world, the cost of wastewater reclamation and reuse and health assessment of wastewater reuse. In the next chapter, the general knowledge were given about the meat processing industries and their treatment plants. In the last chapters, knowledge about treatment plant of MIGROS TURK T. A.S. TAN-ET Meat Processing Industry were given; and; its effluent values were investigated to reuse alternatives. Keywords : wastewater, reuse, water reclamation, meat processing