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How would you feel about using treated waste for compost/potting soil?
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The ick factor is a little offputting.  My only reservation would be undigested pharmaceuticals, but these are already discharged by waste water treatment plants.  

Here's a link to the USGS' current research projects involving biosolids.

http://toxics.usgs.g.....olids.html

Here's  links to more research.

http://www.werf.org/.....lance.aspx

One from the northeast US

http://www.nebiosolids.org/

I apologize for just cutting and pasting.  Usually I would look through before posting, but I'm just taking a break at work and loitering on this here forum.

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Thanks for the links

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