Two years late and at a cost of an extra $2 million, the Metropolitan District expects this spring to join the ranks of the alchemists who turn the worthless into the wonderful. The district, which is ...

Compost piles are prepped for screening at the Tulare Lake Compost plant. Researchers say that natural fertilizers created from sewage sludge are an increasing source of wind-blown microplastics.

KAHULUI — Maui EKO Systems, which has processed the island’s green waste and county sewage sludge into compost for nearly 23 years, could be put out of business as early as the end of next year ...

KETTLEMAN CITY, Calif. — Here at the western edge of the Tulare Lake Basin dwells a smelly industrial site the size of 150 football fields. Roughly eight times a day, its operations are replenished ...

(Beyond Pesticides, August 11, 2010) Independent tests of sewage sludge-derived compost from the Synagro CVC plant -distributed free to gardeners since 2007 by the San Francisco Public Utilities ...

Reports confusing Orgro Class A compost with sewage sludge irk compost makers. “It?s really frustrating,” said John Myers, a consultant for the Curtis Bay Orgro Composting Facility. “We?ve already had ...

Get your news from a source that’s not owned and controlled by oligarchs. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily. So what to do if you’re a home gardener who wants compost without the sewage? Try ...

Two competing plans to get rid of sludge–187 tons of the slimy stuff every day, by one estimate–are at the heart of a fight between Waukegan and the North Shore Sanitary District as the city struggles ...

Alternative sanitation systems use creatures that find homes in human poop. This is an Inside Science story. (Inside Science) -- Big, black wasplike things living in your toilet may sound more like a ...

Part 3 of Grist’s special series on poop. Laura Allen, a 33-year-old teacher from Oakland, California, has a famous toilet. To be honest, it’s actually a box, covered in decorative ceramic tiles, ...