Biosolids: mix of human wastes with toxic chemicals are spread on crops!
Released October 5th, 2019: human sludge wastes should be in landfill but instead some waste management companies are repackaging this sludge and selling it as fertilizer, for crops that humans and animals consume. This sludge waste contain PFAS and other pharmaceuticals that are left in the sludge. The report states that 60% of sewage sludge produced by waste treatment plants will be spread on farmland, gardens, schoolyards and lawns. Human sludge contains nutrients, nitrogen, and phosphorus but it also contains large amounts of PFAS , hormones, plastic worms, bacteria viruses and pharmaceuticals that humans consume and in the pipes of the sewage treatment plants. The EPA however, insists that spreading is toxic waste is safe. A university study found that 75% of people living near farms that spread biosolids had health issues like burning eyes, nausea, vomiting, boils, rashes, and some even contracted MRSA.
Maybe that's why we have such an unhealthy society in the U.S. We cannot possibly blame it all on lifestyle but more of what we eat and how the U.S. produces food for human and animal consumption. It is downright appalling!
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