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Wasteland Redux
Sorry to ruffle Caroline's feathers with my reference to Milorganite, which keeps the deer away from my shrubs. Perhaps the deer have been reading her posts. But I am glad we're finally getting into some big numbers, like $200 million. As everyone knows, there's big bucks in human fecal matter. I spent a fair bit of time in Houston with the CEO of Synagro, Robert Boucher, who may qualify for the greatest shit capitalist in America. Too bad Synagro, US specialists in the human residuals market, has run up against the law in Detroit . . .
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Fred, you did not ruffle my feathers; but I intend to ruffle yours.
The toxic nature of sewage sludge generated in industrialized urban areas has NOTHING to do with "past abuses" or "mistakes." It is unavoidable and built right into the system, as long as industries are permitted to dump their hazardous wastes--lots of it--into sewers. The contaminants end up, concentrated, in sludge which then is given away free to farmers. Sometimes farmers are even paid to take it. They are not told that they must assume the full liability if their yields decrease, if their or their neighbors wells get contaminated, if their live stock gets ill from ingesting forage grown on sludge, or if members of their or their neighbors families gets seriously ill from sludge-exposure.
Anyone who still promotes sludge as safe, has simply not looked at the facts and the recent science, the hundreds of sludge "incidents" occurring across the nation and appears to be swayed by millions of dollars the waste industry spends on PR to change public perception, which includes paying gatekeeper scientists to attack honest and unbiased research.
January 12, 2009 3:43 PM | Reply | Permalink