The Bio-sludge problem

[RodISHI]

This has been a problem in the environment for years and very few municipalities attempt to take it seriously. Just calling it organic and pouring it on crops is not wise at all. To be safe poop waste compost should set for three years unless heat treated. Pathogens and Diseases in Feces and Urine — Sanitation Health in Transition

FDA investigating multistate outbreak of hepatitis A linked to fresh organic strawberries | WBIW

The FDA, along with CDC, and state and local partners, is investigating a multistate outbreak of hepatitis A infections in the United States linked to fresh organic strawberries. These potentially contaminated strawberries were imported from Baja California, a state in northern Mexico, and brand ...

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Not only pathogens but also heavy metals and other pollutants in soil for crops grows into the crops and does not stay where placed. It will and can get into the water supply through runoff. Health hazards of hexavalent chromium (Cr (VI)) and its microbial reduction

Heavy-metal accumulation in crops grown on sewage sludge amended with metal salts - Plant and Soil

Poplar (Populus euramericana ‘Robusta’), oats (Avena sativa L. ‘Leander’), maize (Zea mays L. ‘Ona 36’), English ryegrass (Lolium perenne L.), butter head lettuce (Lactuca sativa L. ‘Reskia’), spinach (Spinacia oleracea L. ‘Subito’) and French beans (Phaseolus vulgaris ‘Prelude’), were grown in...

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Biosludged

The greatest environment crime you've NEVER known

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I've heard about this. Stuff is supposed to be sterilized but some guy got some to put on his lawn and hundreds of tomato and pot plants sprouted.

 

[Dekster]

I use milorganite fertilizer almost exclusively. It is made from sewage sludge.

The golf course by us when I was growing up got the bright idea to use free sludge from a local Miller brewery that used to be in the area. The neighborhood ended up smelling like a frat house for a month and they had all sorts of disease issues. The yeast or sugar maybe. IDK. I just remeber seeing a bunch of white thready looking stuff everywhere and someone saying it was some turfgrass disease caused by that sludge.