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Conversation on Compost, Biosolids, Food, and Plastic
What Does Poop, Farms, and Food Have in Common?
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Where does our food waste go? What is the price we pay for our disposable economy?
Discover the unlikely places we find plastic. What are some of the potential harms of plastic in various interconnected systems? We will follow our poop to the wastewater treatment plant to farm fields and the food you buy at the store.
This webinar wants to address Anaerobic Digestion vs. Composting: Choosing the Best Organic Waste Management Method. Hi-lite decreases GHG, carbon sink, healthier soil, plants, etc.
It will also tackle hazardous chemicals from biosolid land spreading, including polyaromatic hydrocarbons (Benzene, Toluene, Xylene), dioxins, Heavy metals, PCBs (Polychlorinated biphenyls), BPA’s, PAHs (polyaromatic hydrocarbons) and VOCs (volatile organic compounds). Microplastic impacts on soil composition, function, microbiology, and plant health will be discussed.
Tracy Frisch is a long-time grassroots environmental leader, organizer, and independent journalist. She earned an MS in Entomology from Cornell University. In the 1990s, she worked with pesticide victims and advocates for alternatives. She ran a regional sustainable agriculture organization that excelled in farmer-to-farmer education for nine years. She was the lead author of the June 2023 Sierra Club Atlantic Chapter report, Sewage Sludge ‘Fertilizer’ Contaminates Farms with Toxic PFAS. She is the co-founder and chair of the Clean Air Action Network of Glens Falls and the coordinator of a local citizens group, Zero Waste Warren County. Last fall, she co-founded No Safe Level, the statewide coalition advocating to end the land spreading of sewage sludge. She is also a key leader in a multifaceted campaign to stop the first sewage sludge biochar plant from being built in the small town of Moreau, NY.
Linda Norris-Waldt is Deputy Director and Advocacy and Chapter Director of the US Composting Council, where she has advocated for compost as a healthy soil and carbon-sequestering solution for organic waste for ten years. She has been in the recycling industry for 30 years, having spent ten years as the recycling director for Frederick County, MD. She is a University of Maryland graduate and a member of the MD-DC Composting Council Board of Directors and Maryland Compost Advocacy Coalition. She is part of the Frederick Compost Workgroup, a citizens advocacy group for composting and food waste in Frederick County. She lives in Middletown, MD.
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