Read the full article by Dave Chapman (Real Organic Podcast)
“Laura Orlando lays out the case against PFAS sewage sludge with unusual clarity, arguing that what is promoted as a beneficial fertilizer is in fact a toxic waste product loaded with forever chemicals, microplastics, heavy metals, pharmaceuticals, and other industrial contaminants. Drawing on her work with Just Zero, and the growing sludge-free land movement, she explains how wastewater treatment creates this hazardous byproduct, why spreading it on farmland is a disposal practice rather than a farming practice, and why farmers are too often left holding the risk.”…