Abstract: An improved process for treating wool scouring wastes liquors in which the waste liquors are first cooled before acid and collodial bentonite are added; then the flocculated liquor is reheated to a temperature in the range of 130.degree. to 150.degree. to separate the waste liquor into a supernatent liquor and a settled drainable sludge and finally dewatering the settled sludge by centrifugal separation.