> Is Sewage Fertilizer Too Toxic? > Living On Earth > http://www.loe.org/archives/020710.php > Sewage sludge, the solid remains after water from waste processing >plants is removed, > has for years been used as fertilizer on parks, golf courses, even >home gardens. > People around the country are now complaining that the application of sludge > to nearby land is making them sick. Living on Earth talked to >geologist Ellen Harrison, > a member of the National Academy of Sciences, which recently >released a report > that is highly critical of the use of sewage sludge as fertilizer. > MP3 http://www.loe.org/audio/today/020710loetoday1.mp3 > RealPlayer >http://realserver.bu.edu:8080/ramgen/w/b/wbur/livingonearth/today/wed1 >.smil?mode=compact
http://search.nap.edu/books/0309084865/html/ Nat'l Academy Press, Biosolids Applied to Land: (2002), Table of Contents http://ens-news.com/ens/jul2002/2002-07-03-06.asp Sewage Sludge Rules Fail to Protect Health - July 3, 2002 http://enn.com/news/wire-stories/2002/07/07032002/ap_47731.asp Concern growing over use of recycled sludge on land - July 03, 2002, Associated Press Best: in 1995!! http://www.prwatch.org/books/tsigfy.html Toxic Sludge Is Good For You! Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton And how about all this then? "Take toxins out of fertilizer "... After an award-winning series of Seattle Times investigative reports exposed the practice in 1997, some states took tentative steps toward tightening their fertilizer laws. But even the most far-reaching state law - passed here in Washington with fertilizer industry backing - set standards so loose that most fertilizer companies can meet them without reducing contamination levels, and in some cases merely by changing the recommended application rate on their product labels. No state requires labels to say whether or which toxic wastes are in a fertilizer bag, much less at what levels." http://www.ewg.org/pressstories/seattletimes01292001.html And so on. What's in it? - 6.2 million pounds of lead compounds, 1.3 million pounds of chromium compounds, 233,000 pounds of cadmium compounds, 212,000 pounds of nickel compounds, 16,000 pounds of mercury compounds and 223 pounds of arsenic compounds (dioxins weren't measured). Healthy crops, eh? See also: More about this: http://seattletimes.nwsource.com/news/special/fear_fields.html Seattle Times: Fear in the Fields http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex /display?slug=regu&date=19970704 The Seattle Times: Fear in the fields: How hazardous wastes become fertilizer http://archives.seattletimes.nwsource.com/cgi-bin/texis.cgi/web/vortex /display?slug=fert&date=19980326 The Seattle Times: Toxic waste: 270 million pounds on farm fields http://ens.lycos.com/ens/nov99/1999l-11-24-02.html Smelter Toxics Served at Dinner via Crop Fertilizers http://ens.lycos.com/ens/may2001/2001L-05-07-06.html Toxic Wastes Found in Fertilizers http://www.fatefulharvest.com/ Fateful Harvest http://www.seventhgen.com/html/recentnews.html#story01 A Fateful Harvest And A Cautionary Tale http://www.watoxics.org/tfbk.htm Toxic Waste in Fertilizer: Background Information http://www.ewg.org/pub/home/reports/factoryfarming/fertpress.html Factory Farming Toxic Wastes 'Recycled' as Fertilizer Threaten U.S. Farms and Food Supply http://pirg.org/toxics/reports/wastelands/index.html#exec Waste Lands: The Threat Of Toxic Fertilizer This same completely insane practice (but it makes "sense" for the good ol' bottom line) has also been reported in Australia. ------------------------ Yahoo! Groups Sponsor ---------------------~--> Save on REALTOR Fees http://us.click.yahoo.com/Xw80LD/h1ZEAA/Ey.GAA/FGYolB/TM ---------------------------------------------------------------------~-> Biofuel at Journey to Forever: http://journeytoforever.org/biofuel.html Biofuels list archives: http://archive.nnytech.net/ Please do NOT send "unsubscribe" messages to the list address. To unsubscribe, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
