Compost piles are prepped for screening at the Tulare Lake Compost plant. Researchers say that natural fertilizers created from sewage sludge are an increasing source of wind-blown microplastics.

In the quest to "clean up our act" in modern society, urban sewage and the way we manage its disposal, has become an important issue. John Jardine, who knows a lot about traditional aerobic aeration, ...

A: You know that kids’ book Everyone Poops? Well, that premise has yet to be refuted, but where it all ends up really does vary town by town. Poop raises suspicions wherever it’s dumped. Victoria, for ...

FAIRBANKS, Alaska -- Environmental consultant Michael Pollen remembers standing on a pile of sewage sludge composting outside the Fairbanks treatment plant on a November day in 1997. The temperature ...

Coker is chairman of the Organics Recycling Committee of the Virginia Recycling Association and a principal in the Roanoke consulting firm of Coker Composting & Consulting. Your editorial on Sunday, ...

Recently our mayor and councilors put a hold on the proposed site for a composting facility of agricultural waste in Warkworth to do a study. Who’s going to pay for this study? They approximated its ...

A team of UCLA researchers has put a new spin on the 1970s rock classic "Dust in the Wind" — only this one is grimmer and grimier than the original hit by Kansas. They found that wind picks up ...