Listen up! Bloom’s Chris Peot and April Thompson were showcased on the 499th episode of the Earth911 Sustainability In Your Ear podcast, billed by host Mitch Ratcliffe as a “potentially transformative way to turn sewage that traditionally is seen as waste into a valuable material for sustainable agriculture.”
As Ratcliffe writes in his introduction to the episode, “Bloom and DC Water’s path to being a self-sustaining, closed circular system that processes post-consumer wastewater to make fertilizer and capture heat to generate renewable energy should inspire cities nationwide. Looking past the ick-factor most of us associate with human waste and everything else we flush down the sink and toilet, to see it as a resource and energy flow can reorient our perspective. We need to think like nature does — find ways to collect and use wasted materials and energy.”
