While Maine has outlawed sludge as an agricultural fertilizer, preferring to landfill it to stop the spread of the harmful forever chemicals lurking within, California has taken the opposite tack.

Aries Clean Technologies claims its gasification and oxidization plant can destroy most forever chemicals in sewage sludge, ...

The operator of the state-owned landfill told lawmakers Wednesday that Maine's sludge disposal crisis is over now that it has found a temporary home for sludge in New Brunswick, buying Maine the time ...

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A recent article in The Hill (Timothy Cama, Sept. 24, “Auditors fault EPA for lax chemical safeguards”) informs us that we are part of a national problem of toxic sewage sludge disposal that impacts ...

While focused on one area of the United States, the data/conclusions are presumably relevant to other parts of the country. The Report concludes that Northeast sewage sludge management infrastructure ...

The growing textile industry is one of the world’s largest producers of solid waste, which requires significant levels of treatment before it can be disposed of. Establishing the final destination of ...

Representatives for Casella Waste System told lawmakers on Wednesday that the potential crisis over disposal of municipal sludge at state-owned Juniper Ridge Landfill has "stabilized," but that short- ...

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The Guidance specifically addresses land application of sewage sludge removed from lagoons. Section 405(d) of the Clean Water Act requires the EPA to: Establish numeric limits and management practices ...