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ReviewEnvironmental science and ecotechnology2025

Quantifying greenhouse gas emissions from wastewater treatment plants: A critical review.

Xinyue He, Haiyan Li, Juanjuan Chen, Huan Wang, Lu Lu

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Review in Environmental science and ecotechnology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

The trial behind it

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Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

3 citing papers in PubMed.

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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Xinyue HeState Key Laboratory of Urban-rural Water Resources and Environment, School of Ecology and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Haiyan LiState Key Laboratory of Urban-rural Water Resources and Environment, School of Ecology and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Juanjuan ChenGuangdong Branch, Beijing General Municipal Engineering Design & Research Institute Co., Ltd, Guangzhou, 510075, China.
Huan WangSchool of Materials and Environmental Engineering, Shenzhen Polytechnic University, Shenzhen, 518055, China.
Lu LuState Key Laboratory of Urban-rural Water Resources and Environment, School of Ecology and Environment, Harbin Institute of Technology, Shenzhen, Shenzhen, 518055, China.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are increasingly recognized as significant contributors to anthropogenic climate change, primarily through the release of methane (CH

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Fossil CO2Greenhouse gasesMeasurement techniquesNationwide emission estimationWastewater treatment

Identifiers

PMID40786846
PMCPMC12332905

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