Population growth, urbanization, and economic development are major drivers behind the continuous increase in global ...

The federal government has long encouraged the use of sludge as fertilizer in part because it would otherwise need to be disposed of another way — dumped in landfills, or burned — potentially ...

Water treatment facilities told the New York Times they are experiencing difficulty finding landfills to accept their sludge due to their fears of the contaminants. “It seems crazy to be able to ...

The document indicated the waste may have included alum mud — a potentially radioactive sludge and byproduct ... decades after Albany’s municipal landfill closed, it has evolved into an ...