How to Know if Toxic Sewage Sludge Has Been Used in Your Community

For the past year, I’ve been reporting on how “forever chemicals,” a group of toxic contaminants known as PFAS, can end up in our sewage and farmland.It’s not well known, but when wastewater treatment plants treat our sewage or wastewater, there’s a thick sludge that’s left behind. And much of that sludge is used as fertilizer on farms across the country.In my latest article, I looked at how a lack of action at…