EcoPortal.net

Sewage crews now find a pair of contact lenses in nearly every two pounds of sludge they pull from American treatment tanks

Flushed contact lenses survive wastewater treatment and settle into sludge, where researchers find a pair for roughly every ...
Yahoo

Wicomico residents sue over sludge tank they say smells ‘like rotting meat and death’

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, ...
Post and Courier

SC water tank wasn’t cleaned for years as sludge grew inside. Apparently no one noticed.

EDITOR’S NOTE: This story was produced in collaboration with The Sumter Item, an Uncovered partner. SUMMERTON — The sludge grew inch by inch with each passing year inside the water tank that fed a ...
Phys.org

Sewage sludge can find a second life on farm fields. Here's how it's made

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 ...
The Baltimore Sun

Wicomico residents sue over sludge tank they say smells ‘like rotting meat and death’

Two environmental nonprofits and more than two dozen Wicomico County residents filed a lawsuit this week accusing local officials, a private landowner and an Arkansas-based waste company of illegally ...