Yale Team Says PFAS-Tainted US Farmland Could Be Cleaned for $29,000 a Hectare, Not $1.6 Million
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Yale team says PFAS-tainted US farmland could be cleaned for $29,000 a hectare, not $1.6 million
A Yale-led team says one of the country's most difficult pollution problems may also have a surprisingly practical solution. What's happening? U.S. farms receive millions of dry tons of biosolids every year, according to ScienceAlert. The material, a nutrient-rich byproduct of municipal sewage treatment, is spread on fields as fertilizer. Those applications have long been promoted as a substitute for petrochemical fertilizers. The problem is tha…
On the one hand, a bill of $1.6 million per hectare, a figure that gives rise to vertigo and makes soil pollution virtually impossible on a large scale. On the other, a barely credible note of $29,000 for the same hectare. Between these two amounts, a factor 55 separates the financial impasse from hope [...] More
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