Tag: Fertilizer Safety
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Excess fertilizer use: which countries cause environmental damage by overapplying fertilizers?
Nutrients are essential for crop growth. But when they’re overapplied they become a pollutant. Fertilizers have transformed the way the world produces food. They have not only brought large benefits for food security, but they also bring environmental benefits through higher yields (and therefore less land use). But, there can be a downside. When we…
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MAD COW and your fertilizer
Written in 2003 Perhaps the recent finding of mad cow will be a wake up call to Americans who naïvely believe that the government is protecting the food supply; a supposition that couldn’t be farther from the truth. It appears that many regulations are not designed for food protection, but instead to save waste generating…
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Fear in the Fields: How Hazardous Waste Becomes Fertilizer
A Seattle Times investigation found that, across the nation, industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The process saves dirty industries the high costs of disposing of hazardous wastes.(July 3 – 4, 1997) While the Seattle Times claimed the process was legal, only…
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