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- noun A
byproduct of domestic and commercialsewage andwastewater treatment .
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Examples
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The fertiliser is a biosolid which is the end result of waste-water treatment process.
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The funds will preclude this from happening while improving their biosolid disposal and reclamation technology.
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They applied 0.2 kilograms of biosolid to each tub, amending the fertilizer with 11 milligrams of silver nanoparticles per tub.
Scientific American 2010
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The rest of the funds will upgrade biosolid treatment infrastructure and improve energy efficiency.
National Business News - Local Business News | bizjournals 2010
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Lymphotropic polyomavirus was not detected in any of the 13 sewage neither in 9 biosolid/sludge samples analyzed.
BioMed Central - Latest articles Silvia Bofill-Mas 2010
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The nanoparticles reduced the growth of one of the tested plant species by 22 percent as compared with silver-free biosolid treatment.
Scientific American 2010
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The hullabaloo is over a program by the San Francisco Public Utilities Commission, which once a month distributes biosolid compost to gardeners, school groups and homeowners for free.
SFGate: Top News Stories Peter Fimrite 2010
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The rest of the funds will upgrade biosolid treatment infrastructure and improve energy efficiency.
Los Angeles Business News - Local Los Angeles News | Los Angeles Business from bizjournals 2010
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EPA scientists are conducting studies to determine whether other chemicals should be tested in biosolid compost.
SFGate: Top News Stories Peter Fimrite 2010
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The rest of the funds will upgrade biosolid treatment infrastructure and improve energy efficiency.
Jacksonville Business News - Local Jacksonville News | Jacksonville Business Journal 2010
bilby commented on the word biosolid
"Is there a way to safely use shit as fertilizer instead? Some U.S. firms thought so when they began to market biosolids—the gunk that is left over after sewage has been treated. But in 1975 the chief of the Environmental Protection Agency's Technology Board of the Hazardous Waste Division reached a horror-film conclusion. Transforming waste into fertilizer is 'the most efficient means—short of eating the sludge—of injecting toxic substances directly into the human body.' Almost all European countries have now banned it."
- Johann Hari, 'Minds in the Toilet', slate.com, 20 Oct 2008.
October 21, 2008