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Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown David Steinman See book keywords and concepts

Attached to the wastewater treatment plant is a cogenera-tion plant that captures energy from what would have been dumped into the rivers and groundwater. The upgrades to the waste plant make it one of the first treatment plants in the United States to receive and process inedible grease in a comprehensive system specifically designed to control odors, generate reliable power, reduce energy costs, and provide a new municipal revenue stream. The new system will efficiently create and use a free biofuel?

Our Daily Meds: How the Pharmaceutical Companies Transformed Themselves into Slick Marketing Machines and Hooked the Nation on Prescription Drugs Melody Petersen See book keywords and concepts

The scientists found the vestiges of the prescription drugs downstream from wastewater treatment plants in Des Moines, Iowa City, Cedar Rapids, and seven other Iowa cities. The active chemical ingredients in the pills had gone through the bodies of the humans who took them and then flowed from toilets into the sewers. The Iowa treatment plants, just like those in cities across the country, were not designed to find and remove the pharmaceuticals before the water was released, gushing from large metal pipes, back into the rivers. Dr.

Timeless Secrets of Health & Rejuvenation: Unleash The Natural Healing Power That Lies Dormant Within You Andreas Moritz See book keywords and concepts

The main concern is that once eliminated from the body, large amounts of these poisons are infiltrating our wastewater treatment and water recycling systems. It is very disconcerting that especially the fresh plant foods we wash with chlorinated water generate these toxins. Eating these foods and drinking chlorinated water at the same meal certainly exacerbates the situation. The deadly cancer-causing agents this combination produces are extremely toxic in infinitesimal amounts. Thus, only very little chlorine is required to bring about a powerful destructive effect.

Interview with Randall Fitzgerald, author of The Hundred-Year Lie, on the prevalence of toxic chemicals Mike Adams, the Health Ranger See article keywords and concepts

The water purification plants, much like the wastewater treatment plants, are not technologically sophisticated enough to remove these synthetic chemicals. We are recycling them in ever-greater quantities through our bodies and through nature, because more than 1,000 new synthetic chemicals are being created and introduced into the marketplace every year. Not only that, but more than 100,000 synthetic chemicals are already in wide use in the marketplace.

The second point, as I indicated earlier with you, is that wastewater treatment and water purification plants are supposed to filter out chemical toxins. We now know these plants are not technologically sophisticated enough to remove most of the synthetic chemicals that show up in our foods, our medicines and our consumer products. A U.S. geological survey has done testing of ground water throughout the Western states, and found Ritalin, Prozac and other pharmaceutical drugs along with industrial chemicals; chemicals from personal care products.

Hope's Edge: The Next Diet for a Small Planet Jeremy P. Tarcher See book keywords and concepts

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Our Toxic World: A Wake Up Call Doris J. Rapp, M.D. See book keywords and concepts

Studies of water from municipal wastewater treatment plants can contain from 16 to 38 chemicals, including four suspect estrogenic or feminizing hormone mimickers that can interfere, in particular, with male sexuality. • About 90% of municipal water treatment facilities lack the equipment to remove toxic chemicals (or the common drugs) found in the drinking water. In fact, they add more chemicals to the water.21"'150 Much of the water we drink is not filtered adequately because of cost.118 We can afford sports stadiums but not good water? Maybe we need to rearrange our priorities.

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

WATER POLLUTANT 6: SEPTIC SYSTEMS Septic systems are small wastewater treatment plants where bacteria break down human waste into simpler components and destroy many riarmful bacteria and viruses. Large wastewater treatment plants usually discharge the treated wastewater into a nearby river, whereas septic systems recharge local groundwater. Even well-designed septic systems release some bacteria and nitrates into the ground, with the septic liquid piped to the leach-field.

Toxic Sludge is Good For You: Lies, Damn Lies and the Public Relations Industry John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton See book keywords and concepts

According to Abby Rockefeller, a philanthropist and advocate of waste treatment reform, "conventional wastewater treatment systems ... are not designed to produce usable end-products. Because this is so, it must be said that failure to solve the overall problem of pollution caused by the waste materials received by these systems is a function of their design"A 'Today," observe environmental writers Pat Costner and Joe Thornton, "waterless treatment systems—on-site composting and drying toilets that process human wastes directly into a safe, useful soil additive—are available.

Today there are about 15,000 publicly-owned wastewater treatment works in the United States, discharging approximately 26 billion gallons per day of treated wastewater into lakes, streams and waterways. Before treatment, this wastewater contains over a million pounds of hazardous components. Sewage plants use heat, chemicals and bacterial treatments to detoxify 42 percent of these components through biodegradation. Another 25 percent escapes into the atmosphere, and 19 percent is discharged into lakes and streams. The remaining 14 percent—approximately 28 million pounds per year?

In June of 1991, the Name Change Task Force finally settled on "biosolids," which it defined as the "nutrient-rich, organic byproduct of the nation's wastewater treatment process."20 The new name attracted sarcastic comment from the Doublespeak Quarterly Review, edited by Rutgers University professor William Lutz. "Does it still stink?" Lutz asked. He predicted that the new name "probably won't move into general usage. It's obviously coming from an engineering mentality. It does have one great virtue, though. You think of 'biosolids' and your mind goes blank.

Logsdon advocated "funding a road show" starring scientist-advocates like Terry Logan "and a star-studded supporting cast of wastewater treatment plant operators. Put another way, this is a job for a creative advertising agency. If the nuclear industry can convince the public that 'nuclear energy means clear air,' then improving the image of sludge would be, pardon the pun, a piece of cake."77 As we go to press, the "biosolids" PR blitz is picking up steam. The Water Environment Federation met in July 1995 to examine the "public debate on biosolids recycling in all parts of North America . . .

Earth Right H. Patricia Hynes See book keywords and concepts

Large wastewater treatment plants usually discharge the treated wastewater into a nearby river, whereas septic systems recharge local groundwater. Even well-designed septic systems release some bacteria and nitrates into the ground, with the septic liquid piped to the leach-field. Effluent from septic systems can also contain the toxic chemicals of whatever has been poured down the drain: metals from pho-toprocessing, organic chemicals from paint remover and furniture stripping, and waste oil and gasoline, for example.

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