A shitty situation in AL

[jon-nyc]

Ugh.

https://allthatsinteresting.com/alabama-feces-train

[mark]

What the actual fuck? This is untreated human waste? Are there no laws against such things?

[brenda]

Nope, it's 'Grade A' shit from New York according to the article.

[jon-nyc]

So apparently that’s not raw.

I have, just once, been present when a train carrying treated waste headed by on our local tracks. It smelled, well, like shit.

[xenon]

What a load of crap!

[brenda]

@xenon said in A shitty situation in AL:

What a load of crap!

Indeed. And this is yet another reason not to take crap from New York.

Mark will agree with me on that.

[Doctor Phibes]

In a previous job I used to visit a lot of water treatment plants in the UK as we installed control instrumentation. The crap was extracted and then converted to sludge in the plants.

What was funny was that tomato plants used to grow out of the sludge, as tomato seeds went through the treatment process unchanged, and you'd see them growing everywhere. The guys who worked there used to pick the tomatoes. They weren't supposed to eat them, but heck...

I guess shipping it to Alabama is simpler.

[Jolly]

One of my flower beds has compost from sludge and wood chips, temp monitored and turned frequently. Don't think I'd grow vegetables in it, because of the metal content.

[Doctor Phibes]

@jolly said in A shitty situation in AL:

One of my flower beds has compost from sludge and wood chips, temp monitored and turned frequently. Don't think I'd grow vegetables in it, because of the metal content.

That's why the treatment workers weren't supposed to take the tomatoes- concerns about heavy metals