No Sewage Sludge in Lincoln
Beamsville l0r1b6 Niagara, ON, Canada

Great - they can remove 99.8% of microplastics from the sewage effluent - BUT - all that gets collected and concentrated in the sewage sludge / biosolids - and then is returned to the environment - into our agricultural soils!!

"Wastewater Plants are collecting the sludge and combining it with biosolids basically, sewage three-quarters of which gets treated then spread on agricultural fields. From there, the plastic fibers go right back into the waterways.

Interested in the myriad pollutants found in biosolids? Stuff like - Antibiotic Resistance Genes, pharmaceuticals, flame retardants, PFAS, microplastics, phthalates, nano-particles, and prions ... then here is a gig ...

The effect of sewage sludge containing microplastics on growth and fruit development of tomato plants: "Soils with sewage sludge containing Microplastics delayed and diminished fruit production"

This film has a lot of great ideas (no till, cover crops, biodiversity, compost (the real kind) etc. but sadly presents the idea of using sewage sludge / biosolids in a very superficial and naïve way.

"The long-standing practice of spreading treated sewage sludge and septage on farm fields has contaminated groundwater in some areas with PFAS, recent sampling shows."