Bloggin', but no funny business, you hear?
The trade publication Solid Waste and Recycling has just launched a blog by Editor Guy Crittenden. This is a publication (and a job) where the main editorial is about biosolids, so it's serious stuff.
And while the blog gives SW&R (if I may take the liberty of calling it that) the opportunity to keep in touch with readers in the spaces between its 6 issues a year, clearly the Editor didn't want to get off on the wrong foot and so, in his second post, he laid down the law:
And while the blog gives SW&R (if I may take the liberty of calling it that) the opportunity to keep in touch with readers in the spaces between its 6 issues a year, clearly the Editor didn't want to get off on the wrong foot and so, in his second post, he laid down the law:
Let's keep the discussions focused on the business of waste management, recycling, composting, product stewardship and all that good stuff. I'll have to delete anything that is offensive or inappropriate.Why, Mr. Crittenden, whatever can you mean?
posted by D. B. Scott at
9:16 am
1 Comments:
Probably a shot across the bow to the forces opposed to spreading "biosolids" on farm fields. It's a contentious issue. Biosolids are simply dried treated human waste from the sewer system, so they may also contain heavy metals and who-knows-what in terms of other toxins. In Manitoba, farmers around the city of Winnipeg love it, cuz it's free fertilizer. UofMb studies show there are little or no heavy metals transferred to crops grown on fields spread with biosolids. In Nova Scotia, though, residents are up in arms over the practice and the province has stopped the spreading, for now. GC has been at the forefront of the issue in past, so he knows he's likely to get some cranks, and some cranky people, on his blog.
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