The Stench of Recycling

By Keith Kloor | April 12, 2009 6:00 pm

I’m sympathetic to this farmer, who is responding to new neighbors that left the city for greener pastures:

When you live in the country, sometimes it smells. Sometimes it’s noisy. Sometimes it’s dusty. Sometimes there’s cattle that cry all night for their mothers. We’re doing nothing wrong. We’re doing nothing we haven’t been doing.

But I too might draw the line at having to inhale sewage sludge fumes. This, by the way, is a larger, controversial story that keeps raising its nasty head from time to time.

CATEGORIZED UNDER: biosolids, recycling
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About Keith Kloor

Keith Kloor is a freelance journalist and adjunct professor of journalism at New York University. His work has appeared in Slate, Science, Discover, Nature Climate Change, Archaeology, and Audubon Magazine, among other outlets. From 2000 to 2008, he was a senior editor at Audubon Magazine. In 2008-2009, he was a Fellow at the University of Colorado’s Center for Environmental Journalism, in Boulder, where he studied how a changing environment (including climate change) influenced prehistoric societies in the U.S. Southwest. He covers a wide range of topics, from conservation biology and biotechnology to urban planning and archaeology.

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