The growing concern over the presence of “forever chemicals,” per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS), in municipal waste ...

Forever chemicals, known as PFAS, are showing up in farmlands through a sewage sludge fertilizer called biosolids, according to the Environmental Working Group.

Experts warn that sewage sludge, which has been marketed to British farmers as a cheap fertilizer for years, is a toxic mess that threatens the long-term health of the land. Each year, around 846,575 ...

Gene Kelly, Alfred Smith, Jr. Anyone who has driven through New York’s abundant agricultural regions is aware of the agricultural practice of manure spreading. Done responsibly, it fertilizes the soil ...

New proposals to tighten controls on spreading sewage sludge on farmland have been put forward by the government via a consultation that the NFU will be responding to.