Eawag, Swiss Federal Institute of Aquatic Science and Technology, Dübendorf 8600, Switzerland ...

Primary and secondary wastewater treatment processes are essential for removing pollutants, ensuring environmental stability ...

In the quest to take the "forever" out of "forever chemicals," bacteria might be our ally. Most remediation of per- and ...

A University at Buffalo study reveals that a strain isolated from contaminated soil can break down the strong carbon-fluorine ...

Environmental advocates are renewing calls to ban the use of sewage sludge — or "biosolids" — as fertilizer, after an Environmental Protection Agency draft report found there may be health ...

Driven by infrastructure modernization, industrial expansions, and a thirst for digital oversight, Japan’s water treatment ...

Chemicals found in sewage sludge that some farmers use to fertilize fields and pastures can pose a threat to human and animal health, the US Environmental Protection Agency said Tuesday.

Using sludge also means farmers need to use less synthetic fertilizer made from fossil fuel. But for the first time, the E.P.A. said on Tuesday that the “forever chemicals” in sewage sludge ...

“Through evolution, some bacteria can develop effective mechanisms to use chemical contaminants to help them grow ... This might involve creating conditions to grow the strain within activated sludge ...

Researchers have identified a bacteria strain capable of breaking down and transforming some of the most stubborn forever ...

In 2003, 3M told E.P.A. of its findings. The E.P.A. has for decades encouraged the use of sludge from treated wastewater as inexpensive fertilizer with no limits on how much PFAS it can contain.