Current Status: ARA is actively engaged with community members working against the spread of waste sludge on their lands. We are currently drafting legislation – stay tuned!
Waste Sludge
RESOURCES
Alabama Waste Sludge Awareness Facebook Group
Members of this group share articles from around the country about this practice and the long-term impacts.
Sign up for the AWSA email list
Stay up to date on meetings and action alerts
ADEM email notifications and the “List90” email service
See the left-hand side of their homepage
SOILED
Watch the 2020 Southern Exposure film, SOILED, and see what happened when Julie Lay and her family began smelling a stench so powerful it reminded her first-responder husband of the smell of dead bodies. She found that in Alabama she was far from alone. She left her career in agriculture and food safety to investigate. Waste by-products, including treated human sewage and the waste from poultry processing plants, is being applied directly to farmland throughout the country. Who is regulating this practice and what kind of pollution or toxins could be getting in our food that is growing in the soil mixed with this sludge?