What’s a big environmentally friendly company that you’ve probably never heard of?
N-Viro Here’s a link:
N-Viro has generated sales in excess of $40 million since it’s IPO. They take biosolids (sewage sludge) and use lime and other mineral rich combustion byproducts to convert that sludge into biominerals for agriculture.
The resulting product(s) N-Viro Soil is used around the world in farm applications and landscaping, topsoil ammending and in home gardens.
It is a farce to suggest spreading N-Viro soil/sludge is providing the earth with a “beauty treatment” . To the contrary, they are poisoning Mother Nature and all her creatures when they spread toxic Class A sewage sludge “biosolids” which has been mixed with hazardous industrial residuals, which are added to the industrial wastes already in sludge.
While Class A sludge is supposedly pathogen free, it still contains toxic metals, industrial wastes, radioactivity, drugs, pharma, landfill and superfund leachates, etc. http://sludgevictims.com/toxic_in_sludge.html
No method of sewage sludge pathogen treatment inactivates infectious human and animal prions which scientists say are concentrated in the sewage sludge (both Class B AND Class A) by the wastewater treatment process. Thus, land applied prion infected sludge poses risks to livestock, wildlife, and humans including children who are known to eat dirt. http://sludgevictims.com/pathogens/prion.html
N-Viro is paid by industries to dispose of their industrial wastes, which it does by mixing them with sewage sludge “biosolids”. N-Viro admixture feedstock includes electric generating ash, cement kiln dust and coal fly ash:
ELECTRIC GENERATING ASH: US EPA: ‘This waste may contain toxic and hazardous elements and materials that require special handling, treatment, and disposal”.
Cement Kiln Dust: (CKD):
“CKD contains heavy metals and toxic organic compounds; EPA’s development of appropriate standards for CKD management and disposal is a critical issue in regulating waste-burning cement ”
COAL FLY ASH: Wikipedia: “Toxic constituents depend upon the specific coal bed makeup, but may include one or more of the following elements or substances in quantities from trace amounts to several percent: arsenic, beryllium, boron, cadmium, chromium, chromium VI, cobalt, lead, manganese, mercury, molybdenum, selenium, strontium, thallium, and vanadium, along with dioxins and PAH compounds.[1][2]
In the past, N-Viro operations have caught the attention of environmental regulators: NEW JERSEY – 2003 – Dept. of Environmental Protection – fines for unauthorized discharge of pollutants in both state waters and a quarry pit. There was a fish kill in the Pequest River downstream of N-Viro sludge mixing operation.
2007 OHIO : Toledo Blade “Friday, April 27, 2007
“Health board orders sludge runoff near Toledo Express Airport tested”
“”It’s like putting your head in a septic tank,” the Township woman
said. “It’s like ammonia, fish, dead rats. It makes your throat burn and
makes your eyes water.”
“No one ever planned for N-Viro Soil to sit right beside a pit that leads to
the region’s aquifer, nor did anyone anticipate the soil would be used to
restore land that drains directly into a water supply, he said.
“So while N-Viro Soil meets requirements for land application, “it’s not
going to be in compliance with that fecal coliform,” Mr. Ruffell said. “We
can’t have fecal coliform in our drinking water.”
FLORIDA 2002 – Odor problems “FORT MEADE — State regulators reached an agreement this week with the owners of Florida N-Viro, a wastewater sludge treatment plant in Fort Meade, that allows the company to continue operating through November. But after that, N-Viro will voluntarily shut the plant down.
The agreement ends an ongoing battle between the state Department of Environmental Protection, Florida N-Viro and the company’s neighbors in Fort Meade.”
Toxic industrial wastes should be disposed of in licensed hazardous waste landfills . . . not on clean agricultural land or in gravel pits or quarries which may impact drinking water aquifers. Europe is way ahead of the United States in terminating land application, and utilizing sewage sludge as a renewable resource to generate clean power and energy. http://sludgevictims.com/clean-alternatives.html
Helane Shields, PO Box 1133, Alton, NH 03809 hshields@worldpath.net http://www.sludgevictims.com