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Fertilizer from human waste faces scrutiny but remains a profitable industry

Photo credit: Ben Felder / Investigate Midwest - Saundra Traywick by the donkey pen on July 11, 2024.

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“The cool morning spring breeze hit Saundra Traywick ‘like a punch to the face.’

Walking through her wooded 38-acre donkey farm in central Oklahoma, Traywick suddenly found it hard to breathe as the air smelled ‘toxic’ and ‘like death.’ 

Less than a mile away, a truck was spreading a chunky dark fertilizer on a hay farm, a familiar ritual in this rural community just beyond Oklahoma City’s northeast suburbs.

But this fertilizer was putting off a smell that Traywick had never encountered. She soon discovered the fertilizer was made from processed sewage.”…

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