Clean up #Biosolids. This horrible practice makes every farm receiving sewage sludge for fertilizer a toxic dump site that has no liner or any way to protect surface and ground water.
And although #PFAS contamination has many sources, a major and totally unnecessary one is the deliberate spread of #PFAS contaminated #Biosolids on farmland turning farms into unprotected toxic dump sites that pollute water, food, and people with other toxins, too #BanBiosolids
These go down the drain when we use them and they end up in sewage sludge - #Biosolids - and is sprayed on farm fields where our food is grown. Comforting thought isn't it? #BanBiosolids
To save soil we must keep it free from contaminants like those found in #Biosolids. Sewage Sludge is a Trojan horse for toxic chemical introduction into farmland polluting land, food, water, wildlife and the environment.
Further, EPA needs to reconsider its blank check approval of spreading #PFAS laden #Biosolids on rural farmland. This makes every farm treated, a toxic dump site. #BanBiosolids
Gasification of wastewater sludge may be an answer. Carbon neutral to carbon negative, eliminates sewage sludge, destroys toxins in the sludge, heat used generated from syn-gas in sludge and used to generate electricity, clean energy
Want to protect streams and wetlands? Encourage @OhioEPA to halt the #Biosolids program. Run-off from contaminated farm fields turned toxic sewage dumps are polluting our waters. #BanBiisolids
#BanBiosolids use as fertilizer. Toxic sewage sludge has no place in a clean renewable environment. Poisoning the land does not make it more resilient.
Rural rainwater runoff can be toxic where sewage sludge has been used as fertilizer. #Biosolids transports toxic #PFAS and other harmful chemicals from domestic and industrial waste to the country and dumps it on farmland. #BanBiosolids
#Biosolids land application makes every farm a potential waste dumping ground. Sewage Sludge contains toxins from home, businesses and industry, not just poop. The laundry list of caustic and harmful chemicals is immense. #BanBiosolids
#PFAS is closing farms across the country because of #Biosolids dumping on farmland and contaminating surface water and ground water aquifers. #BanBiosolids
Of far greater danger is run-off from fields treated with #Biosolids - the concentrated sewage sludge from domestic and industrial raw sewage - which also retains toxic chemicals, drugs, pathogens, hormones, and all manner of contaminants.