Don't confuse 'sludge' and 'biosolids'

Why would a company spread their product on the land for free if it is such a beneficial product? No company gives away a product unless the alternative is to have to pay to properly dispose of it. Imagine your garbage, you must pay to have it taken away but suppose the state DEP pollution protectors said that you could take your garbage and dump it on the mountains for free and not have to pay for garbage pickup, well suddenly you can claim be be like this company, you are doing the state such a favor by dumping your garbage and not charging for it, ah when we first learn how to deceive. Call it sludge or call it biosolids, the bottom line is even after treatment, this toxic waste contains hundreds of pathogens, heavy metals and other harmful elements. The bottom line is these companies will twist their words, rename their product, obfuscate the truth and manipulate the data in order to not do the correct thing which is to PAY for the proper disposal of this toxic waste into a lined landfill. Nice try PR guy but the public knows the difference between shiitt and shinola, and your product doesn't shine shoes.

This idiotic missive is straight out of "Alice in Wonderland". Synagro thinks that they can change the meaning of words to anything that strikes their fancy.

Lets start with the facts:

Sewage is 'sewage'. Sludge is not sewage. Sewage sludge is the name for the solids material that is separated from sewage in a sewage treatment plant.

'Sewage sludge' is the proper technical term for these solids. Sewage sludge is federally regulated in the USA by the Part 503 regulations. What is the terminology used by the regulations for sewage sludge? "Sewage sludge". Class A sewage sludge, Class B sewage sludge. Land applied sewage sludge. Incincerated sewage sludge. It is all sewage sludge.

The wastewater industry held a contest to rename 'sewage sludge' into something that sounds 'wholesome'. The contest winning word they invented was 'biosolids'. At that time the term 'biosolids' was supposed to be a pretty synonym for 'sewage sludge'.

Here you see the sludge industry trying to change all the technical terms to confuse the public.

Give it a rest.
Maureen Reilly
Sludge Watch

Synagro gets paid very well by the waste treatment plants they contract with to dispose of the biosolids. The service Synagro provides is to the waste treatment plants and the communities they serve. The farmers get free fertilizer out of the deal.

Would we all prefer to put organic materials in a plastic lined pouch and bury it to preserve it for decades or centuries to come? Basically that's all landfills do. Think how silly our current civilization is going to look when future generations find perfectly preserved garbage buried everywhere. Even paper can't biodegrade in a landfill.

The answer is not to landfill everything to make us feel "safe." Improve treatment techniques and recycle as much as possible. Land application of biosolids, if the waste treatment plants do their jobs correctly (and they are regulated heavily by DEP to ensure that is the case), is a perfectly appropriate recycling option.

I just got done taking a good biosolid! Aw, crap, I meant a good sludge.

Seems people like you are the reason such letters need to be written.

You bloviate about the terminology and IMPLY that the sewage, or sludge, or whatever someone wants to call it, is unsafe. You are using scare tactics without providing any facts, you just make trite complaints about the words used.

If the EPA and PA DEP approved "biosolids" the writer's company produces are unsafe, then there is a legitimate problem. But you did not say that, you went straight to the veiled scare tactic.

Sludge Watch wrote:

This idiotic missive is straight out of "Alice in Wonderland". Synagro thinks that they can change the meaning of words to anything that strikes their fancy.
Lets start with the facts:
Sewage is 'sewage'. Sludge is not sewage. Sewage sludge is the name for the solids material that is separated from sewage in a sewage treatment plant.
'Sewage sludge' is the proper technical term for these solids. Sewage sludge is federally regulated in the USA by the Part 503 regulations. What is the terminology used by the regulations for sewage sludge? "Sewage sludge". Class A sewage sludge, Class B sewage sludge. Land applied sewage sludge. Incincerated sewage sludge. It is all sewage sludge.
The wastewater industry held a contest to rename 'sewage sludge' into something that sounds 'wholesome'. The contest winning word they invented was 'biosolids'. At that time the term 'biosolids' was supposed to be a pretty synonym for 'sewage sludge'.
Here you see the sludge industry trying to change all the technical terms to confuse the public.
Give it a rest.
Maureen Reilly
Sludge Watch

Watch the documentary TOXIC SLUDGE IS GOOD FOR YOU and then ask about the veracity and ethical intentions of this writer, this paid-for-public-relations writer.

Here's a video clip from the documentary TOXIC SLUDGE IS GOOD FOR YOU
http://www.youtube.com/watch...

Lisa Williams,Regional director, technical services, Synagro Central LLC
Would you like a dump truck full on Synagro's finest in your yard? In fact, why not share more with your neighbors and your parents.

chill wrote:

Synagro gets paid very well by the waste treatment plants they contract with to dispose of the biosolids. The service Synagro provides is to the waste treatment plants and the communities they serve. The farmers get free fertilizer out of the deal.
Would we all prefer to put organic materials in a plastic lined pouch and bury it to preserve it for decades or centuries to come? Basically that's all landfills do. Think how silly our current civilization is going to look when future generations find perfectly preserved garbage buried everywhere. Even paper can't biodegrade in a landfill.
The answer is not to landfill everything to make us feel "safe." Improve treatment techniques and recycle as much as possible. Land application of biosolids, if the waste treatment plants do their jobs correctly (and they are regulated heavily by DEP to ensure that is the case), is a perfectly appropriate recycling option.

Sludge is the byproduct as a result of taking all the impurities out of water and returning the water to the environment. Guess where the impurities stay? Where else but in the sludge that is dumped on farms and unwilling neighbors. Sludge can contain up to 60,000 harmful ingredients. They cannot and do not test for everything. It is everything that is washed down the drain from business, industry, hospitals, funeral homes, dry cleaners, etc.... I once trusted the DEP and EPA to keep our environment healthy until I started dealing with them. Trust ME when I say sludge is not about fertilizer, it is about money. The sludge industry paid millions to an advertising agency to come up with "biosolids". Check out www.deadlydeceit.com and www.sludgevictims.com

Synagro's Lisa Williams may believe she is telling the truth, as she understands it, based on a fecal coliform test.
The original colifom group tested at 35°C included E. coli, Citrobacter, Klebsiella and Enterobacter. Yet, According to FDA, "Fecal coliform analyses are done at 45.5°C for food testing, except for water, shellfish and shellfish harvest water analyses, which use 44.5°C" "E. coli is a member of the family Enterobacteriaceae , which includes many genera, including known pathogens such as Salmonella, Shigella, and Yersinia. Although most strains of E. coli are not regarded as pathogens, they can be opportunistic pathogens that cause infections in immunocompromised hosts". http://www.cfsan.fda.gov/~ebam/bam-4.html

CDC admits even its own microbiologists are confused by the current PR program on E.coli as an opportunistic pathogen. CDC says, "Escherichia coli (abbreviated as E. coli) are a large and diverse group of bacteria. Although most strains of E. coli are harmless, others can make you sick. Some kinds of E. coli can cause diarrhea, while others cause urinary tract infections, respiratory illness and pneumonia, and other illnesses. Still other kinds of E. coli are used as markers for water contamination—so you might hear about E. coli being found in drinking water, which are not themselves harmful, but indicate the water is contaminated. It does get a bit confusing—even to microbiologists."
http://www.cdc.gov/nczved/dfbmd/disease_listi...
By federal law any solid waste (sludge/biosolids) containing chemicals or pathogens that will cause, or significantly contribute to an increase in mortality or an increase in serious irreversible, or incapacitating reversible, illness; or pose a substantial present or potential hazard to human health or the environment when improperly treated, stored, transported, or disposed of, or otherwise managed, is a hazardous waste, except, when it is disposed of on agricultural land, food crops, parks, school grounds, lawns and gardens as a fertilizer or soil amendment. www.deadlydeceit.com/RCRA.html
http://deadlydeceit.com/EPA-PR.html

Ms Williams probable doesn't realize she is help to create multiple pandemics and contaminate our drinking water.
http://thewatchers.us/1_index-pandemics.html

kinda like don't confuse mexicans with peurto ricans?

Interesting page. I find nothing on it that provides any direct, credible link to sludge or biosolids; just speculation. Am I missing something, or is scare tactics?

Jim Bynum wrote:

Ms Williams probable doesn't realize she is help to create multiple pandemics and contaminate our drinking water.
http://thewatchers.us/1_index-pandemics.html

I can understand were you might be confused by not reading the complete post. Plus, you missed the best part on the waste industry's public relations program to cover up damages. For some reason the letters (PR) was replaced with asterisks http://deadlydeceit.com/EPA-PR.html

Fred wrote:

Interesting page. I find nothing on it that provides any direct, credible link to sludge or biosolids; just speculation. Am I missing something, or is scare tactics?
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That is interesting (PR) is the first letter of Public and Relations that is deleted from the website address.
http://deadlydeceit.com/EPA-PR.html

Jim Bynum wrote:

That is interesting (****) is the first letter of Public and Relations that is deleted from the website address.
http://deadlydeceit.com/EPA -****.html

Those 2 letters also comprise a commonly used "phrase" for refering to people who hail from a particular island commonwealth of the US..

Anyone involved in the wastewater industry should be aware of the problems they cause. So I will give you the opportunity for some fresh reading that just might scare you if you have children.
Even industry people have to drink water.
http://thewatchers.us/DRINKING-WATER-SAFETY.h...

Fred wrote:

Interesting page. I find nothing on it that provides any direct, credible link to sludge or biosolids; just speculation. Am I missing something, or is scare tactics?
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Ms. Williams, your comments do little to exhonorate SINAGRO in the eyes of the public.
BIOSOLIDS were spread around my house in Shrewsbury,PA.
BIOSOLIDS made my entire family ill within a week.
BIOSOLIDS are poisoning my creek and well water.
BIOSOLIDS are poisoning America's produce and livestock.
Call it what you may, but rural Americans CAN tell the difference between BIOSOLIDS and SHINE-OLA!

Actually, it does get worse.
http://thewatchers.us/DRINKING-WATER-SAFETY.h...

Synagro sucks!

Lisa Williams sucks too!!!