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 ...

Compost piles are prepped for screening at the Tulare Lake Compost plant. Researchers say that natural fertilizers created from sewage sludge are an increasing source of wind-blown microplastics.

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 ...

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

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Environmental consultant Michael Pollen remembers standing on a pile of sewage sludge composting outside the Fairbanks treatment plant on a November day in 1997. The temperature ...

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 ...

Smart use of bacteria is helping Fruita's public works department turn sewage into something useful. Roughly one million gallons of wastewater flowing into the Wastewater Reclamation Facility every ...

OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — An entrepreneur wants to mix Omaha’s sewage sludge with yard waste to create a compost product. Andy Harpenau, founder of Soil Dynamics, is proposing that Omaha officials consider ...

Massachusetts lawmakers and advocates who visited Maine on Tuesday are aiming to replicate that state’s playbook in tackling contamination caused by PFAS forever chemicals, particularly sewage sludge ...

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