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Extracting carbon, nitrogen and phosphorus from wastewater could generate resources and save energy, say Wen-Wei Li, Han-Qing Yu and Bruce E. Rittmann.

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  1. Wen-Wei Li is associate professor of wastewater systems and sustainability at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, University of Science & Technology of China, Hefei, China.,

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  2. Han-Qing Yu is professor of wastewater systems and sustainability at the Chinese Academy of Sciences' Key Laboratory of Urban Pollutant Conversion, University of Science &amp,

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  3. Technology of China, Hefei, China.,

    Han-Qing Yu

  4. Bruce E. Rittmann is professor of environmental engineering and director of the Swette Center for Environmental Biotechnology, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona, USA.,

    Bruce E. Rittmann

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Li, WW., Yu, HQ. & Rittmann, B. Chemistry: Reuse water pollutants. Nature 528, 29–31 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1038/528029a

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