KINGSTON – Tiny pellets about the size of BBs will collect at the bottom of an oil-fired dryer at the rate of probably a ton a day when the city begins converting sewage sludge to fertilizer next year ...

A proposal to make fertilizer pellets out of sewage treatment leftovers is solidifying, but with a new projected start-up cost of $23.1 million — almost twice the initial estimate. The cost of ...

In a deal city officials say will solve Baltimore’s sludge problems for years, the Board of Estimates has agreed to pay two firms about $320 million to convert wet, smelly sewage sludge into neat ...

KINGSTON – City lawmakers decided Tuesday to extend a lease agreement on machinery that, when installed, will convert city sludge into fertilizer pellets. The Common Council voted 7-0 to grant Aslan ...

Cary leaders have decided to turn sludge at their south treatment plant into fertilizer pellets. Currently, the liquid sludge is hauled off to area farmlands. "The hauling distance for liquid ...

When Mike Hogan started in the sewage-treatment business 40 years ago, treating waste was mostly a mechanical process with little thought given to the environment. As Hogan recently walked the grounds ...

Baltimore made a deal yesterday to get two wastewater treatment plants built that will turn wet sludge into dry pellets — and might lessen the stink that sometimes emanates from the Back River ...

Five years after its initial $8.3 million start-up cost, Amherst's ambitious sludge-to-fertilizer project finally appears to be paying off. Supervisor Susan J. Grelick reports that the town generated ...

As if Amherst's pellets didn't already have an image problem, now they're considered an insurance risk. Town Board members Monday agreed to delay action on a contract to sell pellets made of processed ...

The board of health abolished its ban on the sale of fertilizer pellets in Weymouth by the Massachusetts Water Resource Authority to retailers by a 3-0 decision on July 5. Board members in favor of ...