By returning nutrients recovered from wastewater to agricultural soils, sewage sludge helps close nutrient cycles and reduces ...

Chemicals found in sewage sludge that some farmers use to fertilize fields and pastures can pose a threat to human and animal health, the US Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday. Exposure to ...

A liquid byproduct generated during the treatment of wastewater sludge could help recycle nutrients for agriculture, but new ...

Johnson County farmers say PFAS in biosolids contaminated land and livestock. Tests, lawsuits and an EPA review are now ...

Sludge - yuck. Not just the kind that sticks to your shoes - the kind that sticks in your craw, bureaucratic sludge - long forms, long lines, entering the same information over and over, time and ...

MONTPELIER, Vt. (WCAX) - Will the state of Vermont crackdown on spreading sewage sludge on Vermont farms? A recent report shows most of this waste is contaminated with PFAS, so-called “forever ...

Chennai: Can we reuse for gardening or agriculture the sludge generated by sewage treatment plants (STPs) in the city? A ...

Sewage Sludge Can Find a Second Life on Farm Fields. Here's How It's Made What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid ...

When Julie Lay’s neighbors allowed sludge from a poultry processing plant to be spread over their fields, it was supposed to be a “beneficial use” of the material as a fertilizer. It didn’t feel very ...