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Composting has long been viewed as an important tool for sustainability with benefits for the environment as it has reduced the amount of waste incinerated or sent to landfills. Since the 1920s, ...

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 ...

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 ...

A target of complaints for years about smells coming from processing biosolids, a business operating in Frailey Twp. has been fined $50,000 by the state Department of Environmental Protection and ...

Flathead County has taken the first step in working toward a long-term solution for handling the county’s burgeoning septic waste by seeking firms or individuals interested in developing a septage ...

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 ...