As a follow up to Bloom’s recent feature on the Earth911 Sustainability In Your Ear podcast, Bloom was invited to share its perspectives on benefits of biosolids as a guest contributor.
The guest blog turns the “problem” of wastewater on its head, presenting it as a solution to several planetary challenges, including declining farm yields, soils stripped of nutrients, rising energy and fertilizer costs, dwindling carbon stores in soils, and increasing droughts.
As the blog explains, “Biosolids are a nutrient-rich residual of wastewater treatment, a process designed to keep carbon and nutrients from upsetting the delicate balance in America’s waterways. However, carbon is energy and nutrients are fertilizer; recovery of these resources can reduce utilities’ environmental and economic costs. With sustainable solutions for waste management and agricultural productivity needed now more than ever, biosolids offer a myriad of environmental and economic benefits.”
