Journal (Water Pollution Control Federation), Vol. 51, No. 4 (Apr., 1979), pp. 815-833 (19 pages) Strategies that are proposed for control of the activated sludge process usually are designed to ...

A thermochemical process can convert lipids from sewage sludge into biodiesel, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es3019435). The low cost and high yield of the sludge ...

Franklin leaders caught a glimpse of the city's likely solid waste treatment future Tuesday night. The vision? Greenhouse-like buildings where about 7,400 pounds per day of treated "sludge" would go ...

ROGERS -- Robert Moore dipped his hand into a 5-foot-tall, waterproof bag and brought out a handful of what looked like rich topsoil. "The pathogens are gone," said Moore, plant manager of the Rogers ...

Three local farmers spoke out against a proposed sewage sludge-producing facility southeast of Columbus now being considered by the Indiana Department of Environmental Management. Mike Kamman, Brian ...

A pilot project shows that the noxious wastewater treatment byproduct could be broken down into animal feed and automotive fuel. Medieval alchemists sought to literally turn non-valuable substances ...

Burning eyes, burning lungs, skin rashes and other symptoms of illness have been found in a study of residents living near land fertilized with Class B biosolids, a byproduct of the human waste ...

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 ...

Thousands of cubic meters of water and sludge from copper ore processing barreled down houses in northern Lao Cai Province on Tuesday. At around 8:30 a.m., the stream of blackish water coming from a ...