[ShareTompkins] New resource page: Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land application, health risks, and regulatory failure.

[A Wilson]

The Bioscience Resource Project has just added a new resource page:  
Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land application, health risks, and  
regulatory failure.

Sewage sludge contains highly variable mixtures of household and  
industrial pollutants, as well as pathogens, radioactive materials and  
pharmaceuticals. Despite its documented harmful impacts, the U.S. EPA  
and others vigorously promote land application of sewage sludge — to  
farmers and ranchers as a fertilizer and to households as organic  
compost. This endangers the short term and long term health of the  
public, as well as the environment. The Bioscience Resource Project  
has created a new resource page that summarizes and links to  
scientific papers that provide an overview of the current health,  
environmental, and political issues around land application of sludge.  
Included on the page are suggestions for reformulating the problem to  
ensure clean water without toxic sludge production.
To access the new page see: Sewage Sludge (Biosolids) — land  
application, health risks, and regulatory failure. URL: http://www.bioscienceresource.org/sewage-sludge-biosolids-land-application-health-risks-and-regulation-2/

Please share this email with colleagues. Apologies for cross-posting.

Thank you,
Allison Wilson

Allison Wilson, PhD
Science Director
The Bioscience Resource Project

phone: 1 (607) 319 0279
a.wilson at bioscienceresource.org
www.independentsciencenews.org
and
www.bioscienceresource.org

"Good with Science"

We should no longer accept the counsel of those who tell us that we  
must fill our world with poisonous chemicals; we should look about and  
see what other course is open to us. ~Rachel Carson


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