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Environment & Energy

mn9driver

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1. I remember as a very young kid going with my dad to pick up sludge for our vegetable garden.

Reply to Jilly_in_VA (Original post)

Tue Mar 22, 2022, 01:26 PM

Mar 2022

That would have been around 1962. We moved from that house just a couple years after that, but it sounds like that stuff was loaded with PFAs (this was Cleveland) and they are probably still there where our 60 year old garden was. It was very common back then.

In Maine today, one thing that no one seems to be proposing is to ban the industrial discharge of these chemicals into the sewage system in the first place. I can’t pour motor oil down my drains, so why can these businesses contaminate sewage sludge with toxic, forever chemicals? I don’t get it.

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'I don't know how we'll survive': the farmers facing ruin in Maine's 'forever chemicals' crisis [View all] Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 OP

I remember as a very young kid going with my dad to pick up sludge for our vegetable garden. mn9driver Mar 2022 #1

Its kind of interesting to me because this was the research area of my master's thesis... LT Barclay Mar 2022 #3

In Madison, WI Jilly_in_VA Mar 2022 #2