Free Compost--Or Toxic Sludge?
source: http://food.theatlantic.com/sustainability/free-compost-or-toxic-sludge.php
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"Some offers are too good to be true. In late September, San Francisco's Public Utilities Commission once again offered "high-quality, nutrient-rich, organic" compost to any citizen who wanted it absolutely free. It's a popular program. Bay-area residents sprinkle about 80 tons a year of the fertilizer on their lawns and gardens--even schoolyards."
One more excerpt:
"San Franciscans are getting the wool pulled over their eyes," said Laura Orlando, the executive director of RILES, in an interview. "It is a toxic product. The citizens of San Francisco don't know what they are getting. They think they are getting free compost from the city. They don't know they are putting sewage sludge on their lawns, and people don't want to eat food grown in sewage sludge."
http://food.theatlantic.com/sustainability/free-compost-or-toxic-sludge.php
As mentioned in the article there is a big difference between compost and sludge or "biosolids" as defined by EPA.
This sludge contains thousands of industrial and domestic chemicals which becomes a hazardous substance/material.
I hope this gets investigated and if it's truly a toxic sludge, then, we will all win against future false propaganda of this kind.
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One more excerpt:
"San Franciscans are getting the wool pulled over their eyes," said Laura Orlando, the executive director of RILES, in an interview. "It is a toxic product. The citizens of San Francisco don't know what they are getting. They think they are getting free compost from the city. They don't know they are putting sewage sludge on their lawns, and people don't want to eat food grown in sewage sludge."
http://food.theatlantic.com/sustainability/free-compost-or-toxic-sludge.php
As mentioned in the article there is a big difference between compost and sludge or "biosolids" as defined by EPA.
This sludge contains thousands of industrial and domestic chemicals which becomes a hazardous substance/material.
I hope this gets investigated and if it's truly a toxic sludge, then, we will all win against future false propaganda of this kind.
Join Organic:
http://current.com/groups/organicgreen/
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lookatmypix
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What is sad and makes me feel so powerless about this kind of "recycling of nutrients" is that no matter where you dump it, in the landfill or in the ocean, it will end up in our food and water anyway.
Excrements, urine, paper and food is a whole different story than pharmaceuticals, heavy metals, PCBs, flame retardants, rocket fuel and many other toxic chemicals and endocrine disruptors alike.
The source is what needs to be addressed.
Our whole socio-economic, political and cultural system needs a huge and abrupt change if we want to stop this mass contamination. - 2 years ago
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