You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Andre Brousseau, superintendent of Sanford Sewerage District, holds up a jar ...

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A front-end loader combines sawdust, inoculants and biosolids in the ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. So what to do if you’re a home gardener who wants compost without the sewage? Try ...

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 ...

A national environmental group is focusing attention on a San Francisco program that transforms human waste into backyard compost, calling the program little more than a scheme to sling toxic toilet ...

Reader question: When I researched biosolids, I found that most of them contain “forever chemicals." Is that true of the biosolids compost available at the Appleton yard waste sites? Answer: This ...

It seems we have a compost smackdown on our hands. In one corner is the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission and in the other is the Center for Food Safety. The latter, a national nonprofit that ...

It seemed like such a good idea at the time: Compost the sludge from the Hoosac Water Quality District by mixing in woodchips, then use it as a fertilizer for local projects or sell to others to do so ...

Today marks 46 years of Earth Day. Cities across the U.S. are making efforts to limit how much waste is put in landfills. Right here in Fort Wayne, a facility does just that – turning waste into ...