FREE ORGANIC COMPOST for your garden in San Francisco! Come and get it! Except — it’s toxic sewage sludge from San Francisco and 8 other counties, “composted” at the Carlyle Group’s Synagro plant in Merced, contaminated with dioxins, flame retardants, and thousands of other chemical and biological contaminants. What goes down the drains ends up in the sludge, and then in your garden.
Gavin Newsom Hopes to Leave His Sludge in San Francisco |
| By: johnstauber Thursday August 5, 2010 6:59 am |
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Food Sunday: Toxic Sludge as “Organic Fertilizer” |
| By: Jill Richardson Sunday March 7, 2010 12:30 pm |
This past week, angry San Franciscans protested in opposition to the city’s free giveaways of “organic compost” that was actually made of sewage sludge.
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