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A Seattle Times investigation found that, across the nation,
industrial wastes laden with heavy metals and other dangerous
materials are being used in fertilizers and spread over farmland. The
process, which is legal, saves dirty industries the high costs of
disposing of hazardous wastes. (July 3 - 4, 1997)
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Part I: Spreading heavy metals on farmland is legal, but is it safe?
- What's known, and not known, about toxics and soil
- Part II: Lack of regulation leaves farmers, consumers guessing
- Example after example, throughout the country
- Experts: How to reduce risk
- Follow-up stories (July - September 1997)
- Farmers press state officials for action on fertilizers
- Even advocate of using waste in fertilizer wants tighter laws
- Food processors ask state for regulations on toxins in fertilizer
- A first step toward labeling toxins in fertilizer
- Locke: Test, label fertilizers
- McDermott drafting bill to regulate fertilizers
- EPA to review use of industrial waste in fertilizer
- State proposes tougher fertilizer rules
- Fertilizer industry to pay for study of health risks
- Q & A: The practice of recycling wastes
- Letters to the editor
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