Materials from the McKinley Paper mill in Combined Locks have been spilling into the Fox River for over two weeks. "It does ...

Scientists from South Ural State University have improved building materials with benefits for the environment. They added sludge from water treatment plants to the clay batch and obtained durable ...

Schmitt Marquez assures the community the material coming from McKinley is not hazardous or toxic, but recognizes why community members who see the sludge-like material may be concerned. Cleanup ...

Innovative technology that will enable municipal sewage sludge to be turned into raw materials that can be used by plastics and paper industries around the world has been developed by Applied ...

The proposal to bond funding for grants to help local sewer districts tackle the statewide sludge-disposal problem needs ...

The semi-solid material has beneficial compounds for soils and crops, said environmental toxicologist and professor emeritus at Cornell University Murray McBride. The challenge is there aren’t any ...

Sewage sludge is the solid material leftover from the treatment of wastewater coming from sewer lines connected to homes and businesses. The issue gained more attention over the past three years when ...

At the same time, discussions are ongoing at national and EU level to ban the sludge as it is currently treated from being placed on agricultural land. Biochar is a material that in turn can be ...

When the trucks don’t arrive in time at a sewage plant near Cutler Bay, the smell from 350 tons of tarry black muck leftover from the daily processing of human waste can spread. This is not news to ...