The farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis(theguardian.com)
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The farmers facing ruin in Maine’s ‘forever chemicals’ crisis
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2022/mar/22/i-dont-know-how-well-survive-the-farmers-facing-ruin-in-americas-forever-chemicals-crisis
As the sludge ban gains momentum, Maine’s largest waste management company, Casella Waste Systems, and some wastewater treatment facilities, have responded by saying that the state doesn’t have enough room in its landfills for more sludge and that the ban will increase customers’ water and sewer bills.
Landfilling sludge is a problem, said Joe Fusco, Casella vice-president, because its storage requires more material as a bulking agent and that’s going to “take up scarce landfill space”."
The solution was to spread it around, and: "their soil, drinking water, irrigation water, crops, chickens and blood were contaminated with high levels of the toxic chemicals."