The department is seeking strategies to deal with the solid waste extracted from its wastewater system.
Source: NYC asks researchers: What should we do with all this poop?
fta:
“All told, the city produces “1,300 wet tons of dewatered solids per day on average,” according to the notice.”
“Currently, nearly half of the sewer sludge is treated and reused for fertilizer for agricultural purposes, according to the city data. But remaining material is taken to landfills, mostly by diesel trucks and trains.”
i recall watching a vice youtube video where they followed the saolid waste as it was trucked ot the composting and then to farms as fertilizer. which i quickly re-found with a google search for “youtube vice nyc poop”:
