What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

A proposed plant that would use a high-heat process to turn sludge into fertilizer has residents worried about odors and ...

Reader question: When I researched biosolids, I found that most of them contain “forever chemicals." Is that true of the biosolids compost available at the Appleton yard waste sites? Answer: This ...

Underneath a giant, rusting impeller, a worker cuts sections of pipe to be removed from a former aeration basin at Fresno’s wastewater treatment plant in this 2015 file photo. The basin is being ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. What goes down your toilet can end up on ...

Livonia police are asking for the public’s help identifying a severely decomposed body found partially submerged in a creek near Hines Drive and Levan Road. The deceased appears to be an adult male, ...