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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 ...

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 ...

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Over the past few years I have become an academic expert in “sewage sludge” – the residual, semi-solid mix of excrement packed with microorganisms that is left behind within wastewater treatment ...