[Terrapreta] sewage sludge

[Folke Günther]

Från: terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org
[mailto:terrapreta-bounces at bioenergylists.org] För Gerald Van Koeverden
Skickat: den 10 april 2008 14:58
Till: Michael Bailes
Kopia: Terra Preta
Ämne: Re: [Terrapreta] sewage sludge

 

Michael,

 

 

Gerritt
 At least heavy metal contamination in humans can be medically treated.
Sydney Harbour fish and fishermen and their families are full of Chlorinated
Hydrocarbons a left-over present from the US Giant Dow Corp and the Vietnam
war.. These are not excreted and theirl ong tem effects are not fully
known.Certainly they cause physiological mayhem in mammals such as seals.

I am pretty sure it is illegal to dump industrial waste into the sewerage
system here.

"Eastman Kodak, Monsanto, Dupont, ITT, Procter and Gamble, Sun Chemical,
Ciba-Geigy, Upjohn Co, James River Paper Co., 3M, the garage down the
street, your neighbor's paint shop, your toilet and millions of other
industries and households are connected to the network of sewers that cover
this nation.

[FG:] Not to mention the hospitals, with all their surplus chemicals, and
those actually passing through the patients, either at the hospital or at
home. If you pee in a bucket with charcoal and put the char into the
compost heap, most of the medicals you have eaten recently will probably be
consumed by bacteria, but if you put into the WC and dilute it with the
greywater from the house, the concentrations will probably be so low, that
the chemicals will pass into the lake or sea unharmed.

The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, which sets the regulations on
hazardous wastes, excludes domestic sewage. If you dump your hazardous waste
into the nearest river, you are breaking the law. If it is dumped in the
sewer, you may be doing nothing illegal. The EPA does not include so-called
"transfers" of toxic chemicals to sewer systems as an official "release" of
a toxic chemical into the environment (EPA 1996, Environmental Working
Group). The Clean Water Act does call for voluntary compliance by some
industries for pretreatment of their waste - but looking at the Toxic
Release Inventory numbers, it doesn't look like anyone is paying much
attention to what is going down the drain.

 <http://www.riles.org/paper2.htm> http://www.riles.org/paper2.htm

 

Part of the difference between USA standards and that of the rest of the
industrialized world, might well be related to the fact that the rest of us
have universal health care.  This puts the onus for health care on those
governments and they are more careful about keeping medical costs down.
Thus the rest of us have been more deprived of our individual freedom to
pollute!

 

Gerald


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