Could one man's trash truly be another's treasure? Well, scientists have unveiled a technique that dramatically increases ...

A team of scientists, including one from WSU, have completed a pilot study that shows by pretreating sewer sludge, they can ...

Sewage sludge is usually the part nobody wants to think about. It is costly to handle, hard to get rid of, and after ...

The study investigated the unbiodegradable fraction of particulate chemical oxygen demand (PCOD) in thickened waste activated sludge (TWAS) using semicontinuous-flow completely-mixed anaerobic ...

What goes down your toilet can end up on farm fields across the United States. Biosolids, or sewage sludge, are the solid byproducts of the wastewater treatment process. Rich in nutrients, they can be ...

Washington State University researchers have piloted a process that transforms sewage sludge into renewable natural gas with 99% methane purity, significantly boosting energy recovery compared to ...

Researchers have developed a simplified, sustainable method of converting sewage sludge from wastewater treatment into high-value activated carbon that can be used in a wide range of industrial and ...

Renewable energy company Green Development is proposing a new sludge processing plant in North Kingstown, Rhode Island. The facility would use a high-heat process called pyrolysis to turn wastewater ...