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.

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Environmental consultant Michael Pollen remembers standing on a pile of sewage sludge composting outside the Fairbanks treatment plant on a November day in 1997. The temperature ...

In the quest to "clean up our act" in modern society, urban sewage and the way we manage its disposal, has become an important issue. John Jardine, who knows a lot about traditional aerobic aeration, ...

The Noida Authority on Saturday said that it has decided to make biogas and compost out of sludge produced at sewage treatment plants in the city. HT Image Noida authority chief executive officer Ritu ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. A front-end loader combines sawdust, inoculants and biosolids in the ...

A: You know that kids’ book Everyone Poops? Well, that premise has yet to be refuted, but where it all ends up really does vary town by town. Poop raises suspicions wherever it’s dumped. Victoria, for ...

Coker is chairman of the Organics Recycling Committee of the Virginia Recycling Association and a principal in the Roanoke consulting firm of Coker Composting & Consulting. Your editorial on Sunday, ...