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 ...

Proposed legislation that would change how municipalities dispose of the byproduct from treated wastewater could cost the ...

The battle over how to place guardrails on the practice is starting to play out in legislatures across the country.

Officials say one person is dead and two are missing after a nickel waste disposal site collapsed on Indonesia's Sulawesi Island.

According to UN-Habitat, more than 100 million tonnes of sewage sludge are generated globally each year, an amount that is increasing annually. However, common disposal methods – such as incineration ...

The berm was constructed from the illegal disposal of waste paint sludge from the Ford plant. The site is surrounded by a small creek and commercial property, near the Mount Ivy County Park.

Along with the growth of cities and industries comes an increase in sewage sludge, which is notoriously difficult to process and dispose of due to its complex structure, composition, and contaminants ...

And the finer the disposal grinds the scraps, the less environmental impact they leave behind. The least expensive garbage disposals in CR’s latest tests cost around $60. “On the lower end of ...

Safer, cleaner, cheaper and more sustainable than current plastic recycling methods, the new technique offers a promising path toward creating a circular economy for plastics. The study was ...