What do other communities do with their biosolids?
Although federal and state rules encourage recycling, cities and towns make their own decisions about how to manage biosolids. Options include application to agricultural or forest lands, composting, land reclamation, incineration, or landfilling. All 50 states practice some land application. Nationwide, more than half of all biosolids are applied to agricultural crops; however, this includes less than 1% of the nation’s agricultural lands. In Washington and Oregon, a very large proportion of biosolids is land applied or directly marketed to the public.
