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Published online 28 March 2003 | Nature | doi:10.1038/news030324-8
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Magnetic bugs cut sewage sludge
Adding iron dust to wastewater makes bacteria reusable.
Magnetic bacteria could cut sewage sludge. They could shave up to five tonnes of waste off the several hundred tonnes produced every day by a plant serving 100,000 people, say Japanese researchers.
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