Posts Tagged ‘Peak Phosphorus’
Visit to the nation’s 1st wastewater facility producing struvite commercially
On April 13, plant operator Brett Laney led four of us on a long-awaited tour of the Durham Wastewater Treatment Plant. The facility sits on an attractive campus – a former dairy farm, today bordered by schools and apartment complexes – and even features a new Influent Pump Station with LEED silver certification. It’s located in the…
Read MoreEarth Day and the crisis you've never heard of
Earth Day got its start when Wisconsin Senator Nelson Gaylord called on US university students to organize Vietnam style demonstrations and teach-ins to bring attention to environmental degradation and push a new policy agenda. It worked. …….. Grassroots organizing brought together 20 million Americans in Earth Day events that first year – 1970. In 1990 Earth Day…
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