To kill microorganisms that can potentially cause disease, the world’s most advanced sewage treatment plants essentially pressure-cook wastewater. But new research indicates that this process may not ...

Sewage sludge at the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant before it is thickened for land use is pictured on Friday, February 14, 2025. In these bubbling basins, you’ll find some of the hardest workers ...

A man standing in a laboratory, writing in his notebook. A team led by Case van Genuchten, seen here in in a laboratory in India, has found a way to extract metallic arsenic from wastewater sludge.

For more than 40 years, the city of Columbia has applied tens of thousands of tons of wastewater sludge as fertilizer on farms across mid-Missouri. Now, it turns out its sludge contains “forever ...

A tractor applies biosolids to a field next to the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant on February 22, 2025. In Lawrence, officials don’t think there’s much risk of harmful chemicals getting into the ...

In a recent study published in Engineering, a research team from the Shenzhen Engineering Research Laboratory for Sludge and Food Waste Treatment and Resource Recovery has introduced a pioneering ...

A federal judge has allowed a national group representing wastewater facilities to join in litigation over the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s regulation of “sewage sludge.” Last year, several ...

NEW YORK--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 26, 2006--Veridium Corporation (OTC Bulletin Board: VRDM) and Mean Green BioFuels Corporation ("Mean Green") today announced their plans to joint venture on the ...

The Deer Island Wastewater Treatment Plant is a pollution success story. Over the last several decades, it transformed Boston Harbor from a nationally embarrassing cesspool into a swimmable bay. The ...

The San Antonio River Authority is looking for a supply of polymer — and interested vendors can request a sludge sample to make sure they’re the right fit. So what does that all mean? And how does ...