For months, Synagro Technologies has laid out the case for a roughly $26 million plant in Plainfield Township that would take treated sludge and convert it into pelletized ” biosolids” that can be ...

Dried sludge at Greater Augusta Utilities District's wastewater treatment plant in 2023. Sewage sludge was once spread on Maine farms as fertilizer but is now sent to landfills because it caused PFAS ...

ZHUHAI, GUANGDONG, CHINA, February 5, 2026 /EINPresswire.com/ — As global industrialization accelerates and environmental regulations tighten, wastewater treatment plants face growing operational ...

State regulators looking into a proposed $26 million sewage-sludge treatment plant in Plainfield Township heard Monday night from township consultants, environmentalists and concerned residents, some ...

Study finds the flow behavior of sewage sludge can be used as a tool to gauge how quickly organic matter is dissolving at high temperatures, paving the way for online monitoring. A new way of tracking ...

For the Elgin Water Department, taking lime away is a $1.89 million annual proposition. Last week, the City Council unanimously agreed to pay that amount for removing lime residuals, which are a ...

Using sewage sludge – one of two end products from any wastewater treatment plant (the other is effluent) – as fertilizer on food crops is a hotly debated food safety issue, but only among a very ...

New research suggests that sewage sludge and wastewater treatment plants are major sources of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) pollution. Waterkeeper Alliance, in partnership with local ...