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The “Anthropocene Working Group” has proposed that 1952, two years after my birth, be designated the end of the Holocene geologic epoch and the dawn of a new epoch, the Anthropocene, dominated by human impacts. While the AWG has selected the radioisotope plutonium from nuclear bomb testing as the marker of the epochal transition, other
Are microplastics the next “bad” thing in biosolids? Even if the answer is “no,” source control and focused wastewater treatment improvements are my two “take-aways” from the presentation by Cayla Cook, Microplastics Lead at Carollo Engineers, when she spoke at the November 17th Mid Atlantic Biosolids Association Annual Meeting Focusing on Resilience in our Biosolids
We have been dealing with the “forever chemical” it seems like, well, forever. I awoke yesterday to my newsfeed telling me that we now have the “everywhere chemical.” The CNN story, Synthetic chemical in consumer products linked to early death, study finds, identifies a list of pollutant sources which sounds similar to that of PFAS,
The very best of biosolids programs can be torpedoed by odor complaints by neighbors. While odors are a feature of agricultural activities, something about odors emanating from biosolids applications can create an especially hostile community reaction. But our industry has not made aspects of biosolids odor a factor in selection of technologies and programs for
Dust is a big deal! It is a big issue globally and it is important t also for us biosolids practitioners. Biosolids products that become dusty when handled in the normal course of transportation and application pose a risk to effective management programs. Viruses have so commanded the front stage of our news media that