"The same holds good for every kind of refuse resulting from a
labour-process, so far at least as such refuse cannot be further employed
as a means in the production of new and independent use-values. Such an
employment of refuse may be seen in the large machine works at Manchester,
where mountains
Brings to mind an interesting (perhaps) true life story.
In the mid 1970s, when I was just a lad working for the Illinois Central
Gulf RR in Chicago, the Chicago Sanitary Sewage District and the ICG
participated in the development of a sludge train service, where processed
sewage would be loaded i
I am semi-retired -- at the economics meetings now for a few days.
What is remarkable is that the article says nothing about the EPA
sanctioned use of toxic waste is fertilizer.
--
Michael Perelman
Economics Department
California State University
Chico, CA 95929
Tel. 530-898-5321
E-Mail [EMAIL PR
January 3, 2004
E.P.A. to Study Use of Waste From Sewage as Fertilizer
By JENNIFER 8. LEE
The Environmental Protection Agency will sponsor a series of scientific
and public health studies on the safety of using sewage sludge as
fertilizer, including nationwide chemical tests and building a human
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