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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 ...

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Year after year, district officials have proclaimed their sludge-based compost is a "sustainable and environmentally beneficial product." In 2015, district lobbyists persuaded the Illinois General ...

Over the past few years I have become an academic expert in “sewage sludge” – the residual, semi-solid mix of excrement packed with microorganisms that is left behind within wastewater treatment ...