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While Maine has outlawed sludge as an agricultural fertilizer, preferring to landfill it to stop the spread of the harmful forever chemicals lurking within, California has taken the opposite tack.

TRENTON — As he stood on the roof of the seven-story high sludge plant on Duck Island, Brian Blair pointed across the Delaware River to a trifecta of waste — two landfills and an incinerator sitting ...

Researchers at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health measured levels of an antibacterial hand soap ingredient, triclocarban, as it passed through a wastewater treatment facility. They ...

As society advances, there is an increasing demand to solve the worsening issues surrounding energy depletion and environmental pollution. Researchers are always striving for new ways to produce clean ...

The company behind an application to dump sludge on multiple sites in King William County has requested a delay in the processing of its permit as citizens and environmentalists push for a public ...

Margaret Orr reaches a gloved hand into a steel tank and pulls out a fistful of dried sludge that someday could be destined for local farms. It’s a byproduct of Petaluma’s new $115 million wastewater ...

The Thermaldyne industrial recycling facility near Port Allen has opened for business despite several ongoing legal challenges. The company began advertising job openings in The Advocate over the ...

The Canadian company Orbite Aluminae Inc. and Veolia Environmental Services, Paris, have signed an exclusive collaborative agreement for the treatment and recycling of “red mud”, which is sludge ...

STRASBURG -- Strasburg Village Council discussed Tuesday the possibility of a sludge recycling plant locating on land north of the village in Franklin Township. The business owner, who was not ...