Woonsocket residents are fed up with the sludge incinerator, leading the city to plan its closure. Shutting it down could ...

People and animals create lots of waste that is usually sent to landfills, incinerated, or stored in engineered ponds such as ...

Graduate research presented at an international sustainability conference is shedding new light on a persistent operational challenge for wastewater utilities: sludge ...

Sewage sludge at the Wakarusa Wastewater Treatment Plant before it is thickened for land use is pictured on Friday, February 14, 2025. In these bubbling basins, you’ll find some of the hardest workers ...

A state representative says he plans to introduce a bill to limit the use of sewer sludge from farm fields to prevent forever ...

The growing textile industry is one of the world’s largest producers of solid waste, which requires significant levels of treatment before it can be disposed of. Establishing the final destination of ...

In a recent peer-reviewed study, posted to the journal Geoscience Frontiers, researchers conducted a systematic meta-analysis on several studies that assessed the viral RNA load of the severe acute ...