KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. — Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. Roughly eight times a day, its operations are replenished ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compost piles are prepped for screening at the Tulare Lake Compost plant. Researchers say that natural fertilizers created from ...

KAHULUI — Maui EKO Systems, which has processed the island’s green waste and county sewage sludge into compost for nearly 23 years, could be put out of business as early as the end of next year ...

Reports confusing Orgro Class A compost with sewage sludge irk compost makers. “It?s really frustrating,” said John Myers, a consultant for the Curtis Bay Orgro Composting Facility. “We?ve already had ...

What goes in, must go out, right? But then what? For 15 years, the Rockland County Solid Waste Management Authority has been providing a clever—and valuable—answer: biosolids-based compost. Sludge ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 11, 2010) Independent tests of sewage sludge-derived compost from the Synagro CVC plant -distributed free to gardeners since 2007 by the San Francisco Public Utilities ...

INEZ - After her husband died of cancer about 10 years ago, Dorothy Simons inherited a vast piece of property in the thick forest and wide-open prairies of Texas's Coastal Bend. "It's just Texas right ...

This story first appeared on Civil Eats. Each day, about 20 million gallons of sewage flows into the city of Tacoma’s wastewater treatment plants. The water is separated, treated, and discharged into ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compost is loaded into a truck at Hawk Ridge Compost Facility in Unity Township in September 2020. Photo courtesy Casella Organics ...

Expand your understanding of food systems as a Civil Eats member. Enjoy unlimited access to our groundbreaking reporting, engage with experts, and connect with a community of changemakers. The water ...