CARBONDALE – A rather pungent debate is under way as town sanitation officials ask themselves whether they should stick with sludge or convert to cake. The Carbondale Sanitation Department has for ...

Next time you’re stuck in traffic and can’t figure out where that whiff of, oh, shall we say “post-digestion” odor is coming from, just look around for a red Republic Services dump truck. If that’s ...

CARBONDALE, Colorado – A rather pungent debate is under way here, as town sanitation officials ask themselves whether they should stick with sludge or convert to cake. The Carbondale sanitation ...

CONSUMER concern about excessive food miles could help make digested sludge cake from local sewage treatment plants a more desirable source of crop nutrients than bagged fertiliser. As consumers and ...

Kenner Mayor Michael Glaser is terminating a contract that his predecessor signed with a trucking company to haul sewage “sludge cakes” from the wastewater treatment plant to the landfill. It's the ...

A new £27 million centrifuge at United Utilities' Willowholme sewage plant is making fast work of producing sludge cake. The 36 revs-per-second machine can whizz the water out of treated sewage faster ...

PUNTA GORDA -- The city water plant got a bit closer to Willy Wonka's famous chocolate factory with the recent addition of a hulking, hissing "Winklepress," a big machine that takes water from mud and ...

Recovery crews have been using their hands to dig through sludge that has been described as the consistency of cake batter to find a missing gravel pit worker.The body of one of the two missing miners ...

The Milwaukee Metropolitan Sewerage District is back in the business of making no-bake sludge cake in Oak Creek. MMSD officials were pulled back into the business of making fertilizer cake after some ...

Opponents of a factory which processes sewerage sludge in Geesala, Co Mayo, have welcomed a decision by An Bord Pleanála that the development requires planning permission. The board ruled yesterday ...

Sludge production in the South West Water region is predicted to rise from 25,000 tonnes dry solids to 48,000 by the 2011, mainly as a result of the marine improvement programme and the cessation of ...

Eleven dewatered sludge cakes collected from anaerobic digesters at different treatment plants were evaluated for the amount, type, and pattern of odorous gas production. All but one of the sludge ...