WASHINGTON — What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients ...

The municipality has invested millions to pressure cook sewage sludge, in hopes of cutting its climate pollution.

Everything old is new again, at least at the Phoenixville Wastewater Treatment Plant. There, a "new" technology whose actual discovery dates back to before World War I is getting ready to ...

Arsenic is a potent carcinogen and one of the world’s most dangerous drinking-water contaminants, particularly in South Asia, ...

A thermochemical process can convert lipids from sewage sludge into biodiesel, according to a new study (Environ. Sci. Technol., DOI: 10.1021/es3019435). The low cost and high yield of the sludge ...

(Nanowerk Spotlight) Silver nanoparticles are one of the most extensively used type of nanoparticles in consumer products due to the unique antibacterial activity of silver. There have been raising ...

Triclosan, after being flushed down the drain, may muck up sewage treatment. In wastewater treatment plants, the omnipresent antimicrobial can sabotage some sludge-processing microbes and promote drug ...

Plainfield Township officials are working toward a decision by Aug. 31 on allowing construction of a facility to would treat and process sewage sludge into fertilizer and industrial fuel. That's how ...

New Delhi: After successfully experimenting with treating sludge at the Kondli sewage treatment plant two years ago, Delhi Jal Board hasn’t adopted the technology at the remaining STPs. There was no ...