With truckloads of trash juice laden with toxic PFAS arriving at its facility, a wastewater treatment plant in North Conway is considering investing in emerging technology to help remove the “forever chemicals.” Other towns in New Hampshire are exploring the technology, which is already used by some private companies, including Casella Waste Systems, to reduce […]

A resourceful solution to repurpose waste and nourish farmland, or a poisonous and permanent mistake?  Depending on whom you ask, the practice of spreading treated sewage, or sludge, on New Hampshire farmland might be either. For decades, this fertilizer has been a point of contention both locally and nationwide. Now, with renewed attention on sludge’s […]

When the New Hampshire Department of Environmental Services tweaked the math behind its statewide recycling rate estimate last fall, the result suggested that the state was doing worse than previously thought at diverting waste from landfills. That wasn’t all the sobering news contained within the most recent Biennial Solid Waste Report, which also showed New […]