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For years, farmers have been encouraged to use biosolids as a source of fertilizer. Biosolids are the solid material leftover from wastewater treatment – everything that flushed down your toilet or went down the drain rendered biologically safe to apply to fields as fertilizer. However, over the years we have learned that waste isn’t the only thing that is flushed down the drain – it is also filled with other contaminants including PFAS.

PFAS is a group of “forever chemicals” that are linked with numerous negative health impacts including cancer, immune system

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Plastics are toxic through their entire lifecycle, and the technologies that the plastic industry misleadingly calls “chemical recycling” or “advanced recycling" are nothing more than incineration in disguise. “Chemical recycling” is a category of different processes used to convert plastic pellets, both virgin plastic and waste plastic, into low-grade fossil fuels or other chemicals by burning, dissolving, or gasifying it.

Nearly no “chemical recycling” facilities are recycling any plastic. Even if they were, they wouldn’t be able to solve the plastic crisis. Pyrolysis, the

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Septic systems are a critical piece of infrastructure that treats the wastewater coming off individual properties, so it is less hazardous to human health and the environment. It is critical that they are functioning, but because they are buried in the yard it is easy for them to silently fail and go unnoticed.

Pathogens from septic systems are a problem, and we want to catch them before they pollute surface water and drinking water. An evaluation of data from the CDC’s Waterborne Disease and Outbreak Surveillance System found that septic systems contributed to 67%