Please beware that the Milorganite fertilizer being advertised by RONA Home & Garden in this weeks flyer is made from Sewage Sludge. What is even worse is that the description that goes with it indicates that it is for use on vegetable gardens as well as lawns, flower beds, trees and shrubs. Do what you want!
What Sludge Watch has to say ~ Milwaukee continues to struggle with PCB contamination into Milorganite by Maureen Reilly
While the Milwaukee Municipal Sewerage District brags that they can sell their dried sewage sludge as "Milorganite", the Milwaukee auditors found that turning Milwaukee's sewage sludge into this 'fertilizer' is the most expensive disposal method on their list of possible management venues.Imagine just how much more "Milorganite" is going to cost the taxpayers of Milwaukee as the lawsuits start and the clean up gets underway.
Meanwhile, the lawyers at Milorganite are lobbying the Canadian government to relax the Fertilizer Act to give sludge fertilizers easier passage into this country. With the massive contamination of Milwaukee sewers with PCBs and the closure of countless parks and school fields with contaminated Milorganite, you'd think that Milorganite people would acknowledge the danger posed by their sludge 'product' rather than trying to strip away regulations that protect the public.
The PCB contents in the land spread Milorganite material went undetected until after spreading. Who know what other toxins continue to be found in the sewerage that goes into Milorganite?
In the public interest, and in the name of taxpayer liability, isn't it time to close down Milorganite?
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The past couple of years, the City of Milwaukee has had repeated episodes of high levels of toxic, bioaccumulative PCBs and lead in their sludge "biosolids"
ReplyDeleteIn September 2008 the US EPA issued a report listing EMERGING CONTAMINANTS OF CONCERN IN SLUDGE "BIOSOLIDS" AND WASTEWATER. Included were endocrine disrupters, drugs and personal care products, nanomaterials, fluorinated compounds, and pathogens including PRIONS.
Milwaukee promotes its Class A sludge biosolids "Milorganite" as being pathogen free. It is not, because PRIONS ARE PATHOGENS. Univ. of Wisconsin researchers found infectious human and animal prions survive up to 3 years in soil and become 680 times more infectious when bound to dirt. Human prions are 100,000 times more difficult to inactiavate than animal prions. An infectious dose is measured in molecules.
Recently, researchers at UC Santa Cruz announced that Alzheimer's Disease (AD) is a prion disease.
Thus, 5.3 million US Alzheimer's victims may be shedding infectious prions in their urine and feces to public sewers. The wastewater treatment process does NOT inactivate prions, They are concentrated in the sludge. http://sludgevictims.com/pathogens/prion.html
Milwaukee area sewage plants should focus on using their toxic, pathogenic sludge biosolids as a renewable resource to generate power and energy, and keep it off agricultural land and out of home gardens.
http://sludgevictims.com/clean-alternatives.html
http://www.usludgefree.org/basic.htm
http://www.usludgefree.org/alternatives.htm
http://www.usludgefree.org/AlternativesChart.pdf
http://sludgevictims.com/documents/ALTERNATIVES_DE_09_UPDATE.doc
http://sludgevictims.com/documents/ALTERNATIVE2009III.doc
The public has no protection.We have no rights, we have no say about anything that is harmful to us. We have no legal representation. We are not a voice to be heard.
ReplyDeleteThe only ones to be reconized is the corrupt government,corrupt big buisness, and corrupt,representatives they produce,called lobbyist. Untill that is stopped,we will keep dying.
You do have votes - each and every dollar that you spend is a vote! Vote wisely!
ReplyDeleteMilorganite is the best stuff available for an organic fertilizer. You people are wayyy too paranoid. Milorganite has been around since the '40's - long before most of you populated the planet. It also repels deer and rabbits which is one of the reasons I have used it for 20 years.
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Did you ever see the post I made featuring your posts and the ones about viruses ? That's on top of SludgeWatch concerns.
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/08/environment-sickening-practices.html
http://opitslinkfest.blogspot.com/2009/08/green-acres-food-and-junk-food-post.html
I was rather poky picking up on your note about Care2. What tipped me off - finally - was a lack of fresh content for your feed on noted stories.
I think you have a talent for picking out stories which will be missed by most...and need bumping up by a recognized talent scout : you.
Here's where I set up my reader : a unique combination as far as I know which you should fall into very easily should you wish to do make your own.
http://my.opera.com/oldephartte/links/
Opera Community is rather congenial as well, and includes a more EurAsian contingent...with many nonEnglish blogs. LiveJournal, by way of minor contrast, has a very healthy Russian user base.
But Opera has tools and tricks that are very useful : just not obvious as many of them are fairly new.
Replying to the last anonymous; You say this stuff has been made since the 40's, well I would have to say there is much bigger mix of toxic chemicals, etc. in this now than the 40's and if it will repel deer & rabbits, well that should tell you something about how wonderful it is? Obviously your not smart enough to figure that out though? Happy gardening with this stuff!
ReplyDeleteAnother silly 'Anonymous'. The post is not a recommendation : rather a warning about the presence of dangerous substances.
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