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IbogaProject

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3. They encourage the use of sewage solids, aka sludge

Reply to mahatmakanejeeves (Original post)

Fri Dec 27, 2024, 01:48 PM

Dec 27

I saw a How It's Made that went through all the processing of NYC sewage and at the end it got shipped to Florida not just as fertilizer but as "Organic" fertilizer.

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The E.P.A. Promotes Toxic Fertilizer. 3M Told It of Risks Years Ago. [View all] mahatmakanejeeves Dec 27 OP

Fateful Harvest: nonfiction expose, Pulitzer finalist, eastern Washington, 2001 cbabe Dec 27 #1

EPA ignored the water issues in Flint for a year MichMan Dec 27 #2

They encourage the use of sewage solids, aka sludge IbogaProject Dec 27 #3

It is not allowed in anything certified organic and we had a heck of a job Tumbulu Dec 27 #5

maybe it was called "organic" but I do recall them showing it as Florida's Natural IbogaProject Dec 27 #6

Natural is not regulated. The term organic is and Tumbulu Dec 28 #8

Environmental research KT2000 Dec 27 #4

The USDA was on this bandwagon, too, and they have a lot more influence on the ground than the EPA does. Martin68 Dec 27 #7