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Billions of bits of plastic are accumulating in a massive garbage patch in the Atlantic Ocean—a lesser known cousin to the Texas-size trash vortex in the Pacific, scientists say.
The Disposal of Sewage Sludge is a Growing Problem Worldwide
HERE The treated effluent from wastewater treatment plants is now known to bring a vast array of wastewater contaminants, including personal care products and pharmaceuticals, into our nation’s water. Sewage sludge, the unavoidable byproduct of sewage treatment, is poisoning our food.
Increasing the level of treatment of sewage cannot resolve the immense pollution from sewers. What can?
Prevention — the cost effective solution — is the place to start: prevent hazardous waste from entering the sewer in the first place, prevent the exploitation of the myth that wastewater treatment and its associated technologies can fix any problem, and prevent the poisoning of our food supply with sewage sludge.
HERE
n the recent past, treatment and disposal of sewage sludge has become an expensive and environmentally sensitive problem in western countries. It is becoming a growing problem worldwide with its focus on the megacities in the newly developed countries, since sludge production will continue to increase as new sewage treatment plants are built and environmental quality standards become more stringent. With some traditional disposal routes coming under pressure, the challenge facing the wastewater treatment authorities is to find cost-effective and environmentally sound solutions whilst responding to increasing public awareness. This paper describes the development of a plan for integrated management of municipal sludges (sewage sludge, nightsoil/septage sludge) which has high security for medium-and long-term sludge utilization and disposal as the goal. It concludes that incineration and agricultural use should be implemented and operated in parallel as first priority options.
As I read on these things … I thought about what the visiting alien/celestial named Klaatu played by Keanu Reeves, said when asked in the movie The Day the Earth Stood Still …
“Are you a friend to us?” . .. and he replied “I am a friend to the Earth”
It seems Mother Earth has absorbed all the filth she care to … Just as nuclear waste being ever accumulated and no science to dispose of it’s quantity .. these ever accumulating sea and ocean garbage patches …. and the tanks and tanks of accumulating sewage sludge, that no one seems to know what to do with … would have soon smother the planet … and consume a people in a filth of their own making …. even if the Mother Earth hadn’t awaken to began Her own clean-up process …
If there was no way to dispose of a remaining byproduct of an invention … then that invention should have never been produced and put in circulation of the people …
If plastic, Styrofoam and other manufactured products had no easily assessable way to be disposed of it’s mass production … then they should have never been introduced into the mainstream public …
I just can not believe that if funds had been managed right … science minds and their inventions could not have been put into place as to control such waste and garbage before it had gotten to an unmanageable situation …
Stewards of the Earth whom have allowed this … will be held in accountable of such mis-management of the Mother Earth’s well being ..
Nevertheless …. learning prevents same mistakes from taking place in the new order of the New Earth …
The enemy of the Mother Earth is the enemy of the People …
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