SOURCE OF SLUDGE: The city of Asheville's North Fork Water Treatment Plant produced roughly 630,000 gallons of residuals in both 2017 and 2018. Photo by Adam McMillan A moldy half-sandwich, wilting ...

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 ...

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

If you were ever to see sewage sludge up close, you might be hard-pressed to find any redeemable value; however, researchers now see it another way. If you were ever to see sewage sludge up close, you ...

Wastewater treatment plants (WWTPs) are a major source of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, including methane (CH₄) and nitrous oxide (N₂O). Subscribe to our newsletter for the latest sci-tech news ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Few people get as excited about wastewater as Thomas Fudge. He has good reason: He and his colleagues believe they have figured ...

Concrete sewage pipes lead a hard life, constantly being exposed to corrosive acid produced by bacteria in wastewater. A new additive could allow such concrete to self-heal – and it would do so using ...

In this case, they focused on alum-based water treatment sludge, which is formed when aluminium sulfate binds with solids and organic material during the water-treatment process.

Each year, the United States produces more than 12 million tons of sludge – the thick mixture of solid and liquid matter left over from processing wastewater and raw sewage in treatment plants. And it ...

Authorities say wastewater sludge from a wastewater treatment plant was intentionally dumped into Shoe Heel Creek in Scotland County, and criminal charges may result. "What we have found is an illegal ...

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

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 ...