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PFAS Shut Maine Farms Down. Now, Some Are Rebounding.

Civil Eats

The biosolids created as sewage breaks down can be used as fertilizer on farmland, a practice that the Environmental Protection Agency still touts as “beneficial,” even though spreading these highly toxic chemicals across farmland allows the compounds to leach into the groundwater, contaminate crops grown on the land, and affect grazing animals.

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20 Sustainable Sips to Cheer For

Food Tank

The vineyards are weeded only using hoes, never herbicides, and fertilized with manure. completely reuses all bagasse (the residual pulp left after juice is extracted from sugar cane) as biofuel and compost. Their brewery in Wales became the first carbon-neutral, nonalcoholic brewery in the world earlier this year.

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