Sewage sludge as fertilizer--Health aspects. Sewage sludge as fertilizer--Environmental aspects. Sewage—Purification--Anaerobic treatment.
Biosolids are the material produced from digestion of sewage at city wastewater treatment plants. Biosolids may be spread over land for plant fertilization and soil conditioning. This publication summarizes the benefits of land-applied biosolids, describes and discusses major categories of contaminants, and explains what is currently known about emerging contaminants in biosolids. While this publication does not include a comprehensive list of individual contaminants, it does discuss the more relevant classes of contaminants.
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Title
Guide to biosolids quality
Creators
Shannon M. Mitchell (Author)
Georgine Yorgey (Author)
Chad E. Kruger (Author)
Academic Unit
Publications, WSU Extension
Series
Fact sheet (Washington State University. Cooperative Extension); 192E
Publisher
Washington State University Extension; Pullman, Washington
Identifiers
99900501684501842
Copyright
In copyright ; openAccess ; http://rightsstatements.org/vocab/InC/1.0/ ; http://purl.org/eprint/accessRights/OpenAccess