U.K. environmentalists are calling for urgent government regulation of "sewage sludge" on farmland. They have warned that outdated rules are allowing toxic chemicals and microplastics to be spread on ...

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Yale researchers found toxic PFAS in collards and other crops on a Darlington County farm fertilized with contaminated sludge ...

Many laboratories throughout the UK are switching their E.Coli sludge testing procedures from traditional most probable number (MPN) methods to IDEXX’s rapid ...

Another way to use waste: a California start-up plans to test a mobile wastewater biorefinery that turns sewage sludge into a biodegradable plastic. Martin LaMonica is a senior writer covering green ...

Annabelle Pan, a research scientist in Jordan Peccia's lab at Yale University, examines sludge samples. Credit: Steven Geringer/Yale University Photo As scientists measure the prevalence of COVID-19 ...