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The Sludge Report

By Joel Bleifuss

Sewage sludge, the toxic byproduct of the nation’s sewage treatment facilities, continues to be spread across the American countryside as an EPA-defined form of fertilizer. I first wrote about this pernicious form of land-based dumping in 1995. Since then a few things have changed on the sludge front. The Merriam-Webster dictionary now contains “biosolids,” the EPA and the waste treatment industry… return to article

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