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The brine more often than not contains traces of pretreatment chemicals, heavy metals, and other byproducts. It's frequently treated before being disposed of. Methods include pumping it down to the ocean floor or mixing with a source of less salty (wastewater/hydro) runoff. Removing the trace chemicals to make salt out of the brine would be prohibitively expensive.



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