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To: AugustWest who wrote (1259)	12/27/2001 12:10:58 PM
From: BWAC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

I guess the people who bag their grass and send it off in the garbage use a lot of chemicals as well. Figures. I've often wondered about those people who send off all their leaves and grass clippings and then buy them back from the city 6 months later.

To: AugustWest who wrote (1259)	12/27/2001 11:17:19 PM
From: Crocodile	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 3495

Thanks for posting this, August. It confirms something that I have long suspected. I'm working with a group that has been trying to get sewage-sludge field application stopped up in our area because of the high levels of toxins which are present in it. As a lot of herbicides wash down into the storm sewers from lawn chemical applications, this is yet one more reason that things have to be thought through from beginning to end when you're trying to design an effective recycling program. Up here and in most other parts of North America, sewage sludge not only contains waste from domestic sewage, but also the effluent from industry that are disposed of through sewers, hospital waste (although Ontario has just last week, said that hospitals will no longer be able to dump biohazardous wastes like blood, etc... into the sewers), and a multitude of other "wastes". Up here, the city is even mixing toxic leachates from 4 dumps that have been leaking out into the land because of faulty, disintegrating, or non-existent containment liners. The leachate is mixed in with the "biosolids" (sewage) and spread on farmland. Go figure the logic in that, eh? -croc