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 ...

Anyone who has driven through New York’s abundant agricultural regions is aware of the agricultural practice of manure spreading. Done responsibly, ...

Composting has long been viewed as an important tool for sustainability with benefits for the environment as it has reduced the amount of waste incinerated or sent to landfills. Since the 1920s, ...

A three-month compost pilot program has revealed several benefits and strong interest in the Athens community. “We launched the program during the first week in February and ended the first week of ...

BOZEMAN, Mont. — Gallatin County received a $400,000 grant to expand composting operations at Logan Landfill to include food and biosolids. Officials say the federal grant will allow the HRDC to ...

GOOD SPRING – The operator of a biosolids composting facility is finishing installation of a system designed to reduce odors that neighbors have long complained about, according to Colleen Connolly, ...

Kalispell is moving away from composting its biosolids owing to public concerns surrounding forever chemicals and the potential closure of its vendor's composting facility. At its Dec. 9 meeting, ...

Underneath a giant, rusting impeller, a worker cuts sections of pipe to be removed from a former aeration basin at Fresno’s wastewater treatment plant in this 2015 file photo. The basin is being ...

New York state officials eye new approaches to control "forever chemicals" contaminants known as PFAS in water, soils ...