Recycling Black Water


2.3 Recycling Black Water

Black water is waste from toilets or kitchens and can present risks to human health, the community and the environment as a whole if not treated correctly.

Small scale treatment systems are generally uneconomic and impractical to manage/maintain.

Water from treatment centres if controlled to a consistent standard may be used for similar applications as grey water.

Useful links for guidance are;-


The recent case study DBP00132, may also be of interest. This deals with cleaning kitchen waste water at source before returning it to the mains system.