Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Compost piles are prepped for screening at the Tulare Lake Compost plant. Researchers say that natural fertilizers created from ...

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

Starre Vartan is an environmental and science journalist. She holds an MFA degree from Columbia University and Geology and English degrees from Syracuse University. Compost is decomposed organic ...

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Over the past few years I have become an academic expert in “sewage sludge” – the residual, semi-solid mix of excrement packed with microorganisms that is left behind within wastewater treatment ...