Brevard County wants to stop farmers and ranchers from using too much sewage sludge as fertilizer, saying that the high phosphorous levels could trigger toxic algae blooms in our drinking water supply ...
Defra has launched a consultation on whether decades-old rules governing the use of sewage sludge on farmland should be tightened, replaced or scrapped ...
In the summer of 1976, household trash, leftover sewage and dead fish washed up on the ocean beaches of New York and New Jersey. Pressure rose on New York City to quit dumping massive amounts of ...
Anyone who has driven through New York’s abundant agricultural regions is aware of the agricultural practice of manure spreading. Done responsibly, ...
New proposals to tighten controls on spreading sewage sludge on farmland have been put forward by the government via a ...
Farmers face sweeping changes to water and pollution rules under new proposals aimed at cutting river pollution while ...
The commission eventually tightened rules for using food processing waste or sewage sludge as fertilizer. “There’s no such thing as a food-grade fertilizer from a poultry plant,” said Julie Lay, an ...