Fighting Sludge

What you can do
List of things you can do, from the United Sludge-Free Alliance

Products containing microbeads  (avoid and write to manufacturer asking them to stop using microbeads because they end up in sludge)


Sludge fighting organizations and/or citizen groups

Sewage Sludge Action Network

Citizens for Sludge Free Land/Sludge Facts  founder Caroline Snyder, Ph.D.

United Sludge-Free Alliance,  founder Darree Sicher


Virginia
Citizens Against Sludge concentrates on Goochland, Hanover, King & Queen, King William, New Kent, Prince George, and Surry Counties


Books to Read

Science For Sale by David L. Lewis, PhD
(Dr. Lewis is the Microbiologist whistleblower fired by the EPA for opposing the land application of sewage sludge.  this book is mostly about biosolids but it has other topics of interest)
Toxic Sludge is Good For You by John Stauber and Sheldon Rampton  (about the PR industry)

Our Stolen Future by Theo Colborn, re endocrine disrupters

Silent Spring  by Rachel Carson (re  insecticides and pesticides)  A classic to understand the beginnings of the fight to save the environment.

The End of Nature by Bill McKibben  (forces leading to global warming)

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