Viewing a single comment thread. View all comments

rodrigkn t1_it75ng3 wrote

Remember when they said similar sludge could be used as fertilizer? Now tracts of land contain toxic forever chemicals and nothing is allowed to be grown due to public safety.

Precedence is not on their side.

46

krumpdawg t1_it765a5 wrote

Or when they told us they would make artificial reefs out of old tires.

17

henry_sqared t1_it7e13r wrote

Remember when they said that rendered meat (aka roadkill) could be used as feedstock and we had mad cow outbreaks?

13

rodrigkn t1_it7muai wrote

Ah yes! The 2000’s were wild times.

7

Still-WFPB t1_it79nxc wrote

Remember when japanese researcher said he's designed foodsafe shitburgers but he'll have a hard time marketing the product?

9

weebeardedman t1_it7ezgt wrote

I mean, to be fair, we've explicitly known chemicals like pfos/pfas are both toxic and invasive (as to say, easily travels through surface to reach watertable) since the 50's/60's we just didn't give a shit

6

rodrigkn t1_it7mzp0 wrote

The trick to not having carcinogens is to not measure for carcinogens. 😉

9

mutherhrg OP t1_it7b7n7 wrote

Turning this sludge into industrial feedstock isn't quite the same as spreading it across a field.

4

rodrigkn t1_it7moz5 wrote

I would consider it worse. Through the process of bio magnification, we can see repercussions in the consumers gut biome and nutritional quality. Possibly even carcinogenic.

From an economic perspective, I also think it would be hard for them to find ã consumer base if forced to disclose this practice.

5

imakesawdust t1_itakp45 wrote

Why? Do you expect methanol buyers to balk at buying methanol that came from sludge feedstock?

3

mutherhrg OP t1_it7nlon wrote

Do you even know what industrial feedstock even means?

1

TheRoadsMustRoll t1_it8c7li wrote

lol. they don't.

for the benefit of reddit's soylent-green-fearing constituency i'll post a simple google definition:

"Industrial feedstocks are raw materials used to make industrial products"

so. think gaskets and road paving products. not animal feed.

3

dreadnaught_2099 t1_it8tljj wrote

To be fair, feedstock, while a 100% accurate term, is misleading because every reader thinks it's related to the term "foodstock" which of course it isn't.

1

TheRoadsMustRoll t1_it8v0nx wrote

agreed.

but it also outs the people that didn't read the article because it says right under the headline: "Sewage sludge used as feedstock to make methanol"

3

chamillus t1_ith4vvf wrote

WTF are you talking about. No one is drinking methanol.

0

sambull t1_it7nhy4 wrote

that shit literally drove my grandma away from her land... they'd open spread it on the neighboring farms and it would smell like literal human shit. She still thinks it was on purpose to destroy the local farmers.

3

chamillus t1_ith4ym1 wrote

How is this at all relevant to the article?

0