Sentence examples for sludge land from inspiring English sources

The possibility of methane recovery (both as biogas and as soluble methane in reactor effluent) and bioenergy production, nutrient recovery, and final destination of the sludge (land application, landfill, or incineration) were also evaluated.

We completed 26 interviews with 34 individuals 35 83 years of age living in rural and semirural areas within approximately 1 mile of sewage sludge land application sites in North Carolina, South Carolina, and Virginia.

Although differences in the composition and treatment of sewage sludge, land application methods, and geographic features of application sites make the transferability of results to other locations uncertain, case reports indicate that similar health and quality of life issues are raised in other states and countries (Harrison and Oakes 2002; Lewis et al. 2002; Lowman et al. 2011; Shields 2002).

To be eligible for the study, participants needed to be ≥ 18 years of age, live within 1 mile of a permitted sewage sludge land application site, speak English, and be willing to spend 1 2 hr responding to a semistructured, open-ended interview about their experiences living near the site.

In an extensive review, Smith [ 34] suggested that the application of sewage sludge to land was of little concern with respect to soil, animal or human health because rates of transfer into plants and animals were likely to be insignificant.

Common management strategies stabilize sludge for land disposal by microbial processes or heat.

Moreover, the use of sludge on land, principally in agriculture, compared to incineration or sanitary landfill, has lower costs.

There is a growing demand for the treated and untreated sewage sludge for land application in Lusaka and other cities in Zambia.

The objective of this study was to determine the benefits and limitations of injecting digested sewage sludge into land growing arable crops using shallow injection techniques.

Although microplastics obviously enter the terrestrial environment (e.g. due to littering and application of sewage sludge to land) and soils have been assumed to be a sink for microplastics, there are only extremely few data on microplastic concentrations in the terrestrial environment [71, 72, 77].

However, the use of sludge on land used to graze animals appears likely to result in increased human exposure to PCDD/F.