Sludge Happens

[FOTD]

Chicken anyone? Better keep a close eye on those scabs....

Recycling sewage into fertilizer might be making us sick. Why doesn't the EPA give a crap?

—By Josh Harkinson
http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2009/05/sludge-happens


'Today, more than half the 15 trillion gallons of sewage Americans flush annually is biologically scrubbed, "dewatered," and processed into products with names like BioEdge, Nitrohumus, and Vital Cycle and spread on farmland, lawns, and home vegetable gardens. (The rest is incinerated or landfilled.) Recycling sewage is big business: In 2007 the Carlyle Group paid $772 million for the sludge-residuals company Synagro, whose products are the most popular on the market. Sludge could be the ultimate growth industry; as one trade publication observes dryly, "There will continue to be more wastewater solids to manage with every passing year."

When this little demon tells some posters to eatsh!t, he will realize all they have to do is go open their fridge.

[Gaspar]

I use milorganite on my lawn. http://www.milorganite.com/home/

By far the best organic fertilizer I have ever used.  Smells a bit ripe after the first watering but it greens faster than anything because of it's high iron content.  I don't think I'd use it on my veggies because of the smell, but I've used it around my Koi pond for years (I even put it in my water lily pots each spring).  Never killed anything, and all my fish have the normal number of eyeballs.

Any type of recycling is going to result in a buildup of some persistent toxins, that's why we are taking steps to mitigate these compounds before they end up in waste. 

Here's how it's made:http://www.milorganite.com/videos/20060921_milorganite.wmv

[Conan71]

I love this quote from the story:

"It smelled exactly like what it is—it smelled like smile,"

You aren't saying that the EPA might be wrong here are you?