Sludge: The Whole Story

coal ash (4.00 / 1)

waste from coal power plants is to be used as soil admendment for farmers fields. so with sewage sludge
I am not posting to say no, but how... Like could we apply this stuff in a forest and not go back there for fourty years ? would this be more safe?  

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by: zardoz86 @ Fri Mar 05, 2010 at 22:30:43 PM UTC

or how about we quit (4.00 / 2)

producing toxic industrial byproducts?

"I can understand someone from Iowa promoting corn and soy, but we are not feeding the world, we are feeding animals and soft drink companies." - Jim Goodman

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by: Jill Richardson @ Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 00:20:50 AM UTC

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or how about we quit (0.00 / 0)

or how about we quit producing toxic byproducts

We are who we are where we are now.......

I do want to change. I bought a farm and want to farm in a sustainable way. Perhaps in a carbon negative way.

I went to a training meeting for agricultural extension agents.. mention of 59 million acres of agricultural land to become forest.

Coal ash is now being used to fretilize cotton crop

waste from coal power plants is to be used as soil admendment for farmers fields. so with sewage sludge
I am not posting to say no, but how... Like could we apply this stuff in a forest and not go back there for fourty years ? would this be more safe?

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by: zardoz86 @ Sat Mar 06, 2010 at 02:13:39 AM UTC