What to Know About ‘Forever Chemicals’ in Sludge Fertilizer
The E.P.A.’s report follows a growing body of research that has found that sludge can be contaminated with human-made ...
Anthropocene Magazine published by Future Earth on MSN12d
Researchers ask: Could we feed the world with the world’s waste?
They found that underutilized human and livestock waste could substitute 27% of current fertilizer use in China, 26% in the ...
MIT Technology Review20d
How poop could help feed the planet
Once you get over the ick factor, new technologies are efficiently transforming human waste into agricultural solutions.
Pee-cycling: Turning human urine into fertilizer
The Rich Earth Institute in Vermont collects, pasteurizes and distributes recycled human urine as agricultural fertilizer, to return precious nutrients and minerals to the soil. Pee jokes are an ...
'We need to stop': Lawmakers, advocates renew efforts to ban 'humanure' use
An Oklahoma lawmaker is raising a stink over using human, commercial, and industrial waste as fertilizer.The product is ...
The New York Times27d
The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago.
“There’s absolutely enough evidence, with the high levels of contaminants that we see in the ... farmers to use sludge as fertilizer. Human beings had used waste to fertilize the land for ...