"It's all your fault, man."
By order of our messiah Lord Barack Hussein Obama all citizens are required to stop pooping...immediately...violaters will be taxed on a per poop basis. Repeat offenders will be executed.
This stuff used to go straight to the landfill. I wonder when they started using it as fertilizer?
and who doesn't believe advertising works - look at the increase in the household use of "antimicrobial soap", in just recent years, so naturally the rate of the chemicals therein MUST show up in the water that came from our bathrooms and kitchens!!!!!!
the question is: is this fostering another situation like what happens when people take too many antibiotics too often - we kill too many "good" germs in our system and the bad germs develop resistance to the antibiotics
can we do the same type of thing to the growing systems in the soil?
Former Vice-President Albert Gore, Jr. has announce the formation of a new company. This company will provide poop off-sets for those unable to comply with the messiah's new edict prohibiting pooping. Mr. Gore assures the public that all poop off-sets will be environmentally neutral.
I think the farms sewage sludge is typically used on are non-food farms such as sod farms.
The farmers quit using it around here because it had too much salt in it.
Idiot comment.
Assuming the sludge contains such contaminants, how is dumping it into rivers supposed to be better for the environment?
TDP would solve this problem in large measure; the product would end up for the most part distilled water, gas and oil with a small amount of carbon solids. Google up TDP oil for more information.
One of murphy's laws is that "Nothing gets clean unless something else is made dirty" (from an old poster long thrown out by 'Th Little Lady'). Kind of gives the eco-nuts a problem they would rather not think about.
Big farmers in my County were pushing for it’s use a few years ago. They referred to it as “nutrients”. Even the Farm Bureau was in favor of it. I am against spreading sludge on farmland. Heavy minerals will migrate through the soil and eventually reach the water table and aquifers. Land that has had sludge applied should be documented by the County and State, as well as recorded on the property deed. Other landowners, whose wells may be contaminated should have access to these records to sue for damages. Potential buyers should also know that sludge was spread on that property as well.