KINGSTON – Tiny pellets about the size of BBs will collect at the bottom of an oil-fired dryer at the rate of probably a ton a day when the city begins converting sewage sludge to fertilizer next year ...

They're saying so long to sludge at Exeter Township's waste water treatment plant. They're saying so long to sludge at Exeter Township's waste water treatment plant. The plant is now home to a fully ...

KINGSTON – City lawmakers decided Tuesday to extend a lease agreement on machinery that, when installed, will convert city sludge into fertilizer pellets. The Common Council voted 7-0 to grant Aslan ...

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 ...

When Mike Hogan started in the sewage-treatment business 40 years ago, treating waste was mostly a mechanical process with little thought given to the environment. As Hogan recently walked the grounds ...

Cary leaders have decided to turn sludge at their south treatment plant into fertilizer pellets. Currently, the liquid sludge is hauled off to area farmlands. Other WRAL Top Stories "The hauling ...

Five years after its initial $8.3 million start-up cost, Amherst's ambitious sludge-to-fertilizer project finally appears to be paying off. Supervisor Susan J. Grelick reports that the town generated ...

Thanks to the Advocate and reporter Kate King for the excellent series on the sewage plant issues. She correctly based her story on interviews with key persons and used many quotations. However, ...

As if Amherst's pellets didn't already have an image problem, now they're considered an insurance risk. Town Board members Monday agreed to delay action on a contract to sell pellets made of processed ...