How to Use biosolid in a Sentence

biosolid

noun

• The sewage is pressed into biosolids that are used for agriculture and landscaping.
  — Christine Willmsen, The Seattle Times, 17 Sep. 2017
• New Yorkers flush the toilet millions of times a day, creating 1,200 tons of biosolids, or treated sewage sludge.
  — Kate King, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• Still, the department sees land application as the best-case scenario for biosolids.
  — Dennis Pillion | [e-mail], al, 11 Sep. 2019
• DC Water would have needed to spend most of that money anyway to treat the biosolids, and this was a way to do that in a sustainable manner and generate revenue to fix aging pipes.
  — Jennifer Alsever, Fortune, 12 June 2017
• In states that include Maine and Pennsylvania, farmers were for years urged to use biosolids as fertilizer.
  — Gregory B. Hladky, courant.com, 17 July 2019
• The shipping cost eventually proved to be too high, however, and Colorado farmers stopped importing New York biosolids in 2012.
  — Chas Danner, Daily Intelligencer, 11 Mar. 2018
• Several cars loaded with the containers of the sludge, also called biosolids, are currently sitting at a rail yard in the town of Parrish in Walker County awaiting transfer to the landfill.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 20 Feb. 2018
• More than a decade ago, biosolids were blamed for degradation of waters in the Kissimmee River basin, and lawmakers greatly restricted the spreading of the sewage byproduct affecting that region.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
• New York City now pays contractors approximately $50 million per year to remove its biosolids, officials said.
  — Kate King, WSJ, 30 Mar. 2018
• The western communities also face issues with disposal of mulch and biosolids—organic matter which is recycled from sewage.
  — Austen Erblat, Sun-Sentinel.com, 23 Mar. 2018
• The city has set a goal of eliminating landfill disposal by 2030, perhaps by converting biosolids into energy or compost.
  — Valerie Bauerlein, WSJ, 19 Apr. 2018
• The waste in question -- technically referred to as biosolids -- is the solid material left behind from wastewater treatment operations and often referred to as sewage sludge.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 19 Jan. 2018
• Earlier this year, scientists at the state agency said there is compelling evidence that the river is being polluted by the spreading on nearby agricultural lands of sewage-treatment byproduct called biosolids.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019
• The agency is considering new rules on how biosolids – solid material left over from wastewater treatment operations and chicken processing plants – can be used as a fertilizer.
  — USA TODAY, 16 Sep. 2019
• The containers are loaded with a material called sewer sludge or biosolids, which is the solid material left behind after conventional wastewater treatment processes.
  — Dennis Pillion, AL.com, 6 Apr. 2018
• Virginia Barker, director of Brevard County’s department of natural resources, said the state’s rewriting of regulations for biosolids should be completed as soon as possible and that a long-term technological solution should be sought.
  — Kevin Spear, orlandosentinel.com, 26 July 2019

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