User:Envpoli/Sewage sludge/Bibliography

Academic Sources

Bagheri, M., Bauer, T., Burgman, L. E., & Wetterlund, E. (2023). Fifty years of sewage sludge management research: Mapping researchers' motivations and concerns. Journal of Environmental Management, 325, 116412-116412. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2022.116412

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I read the abstract and skimmed the intro & conclusion):
  • This is a recent peer reviewed academic article (with a DOI number), so it should be reliable.
  • It is a review article, looking at 50 years of research on sewage sludge management, so it should be a useful source to understand how researchers have approached the subject.
  • The study identifies four major areas of research on sewage sludge between 1971 and 2019, which might help identify content gaps on the sewage sludge article. It is particularly focused on scientific/technical research about sewage sludge, but it also points to political conflict and political decisions.
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Fijalkowski, K., Rorat, A., Grobelak, A., & Kacprzak, M. J. (2017). The presence of contaminations in sewage sludge – the current situation. Journal of Environmental Management, 203(Pt 3), 1126-1136. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.jenvman.2017.05.068

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I read the abstract and skimmed the intro & conclusion):
  • This is a recent peer reviewed academic article (with a DOI number), so it should be reliable.
  • It presents a review of research since 2010 on sewage sludge and its potential contaminants, so it should be a useful overview of which contaminants had been studied (and found) in the 2010s.
  • The article also references EU regulations about sewage sludge, and focuses on the use of sewage sludge in Europe, so it is looking at the political decisions/policy around sewage sludge in Europe, as well as scientific/technical information about sewage sludge.
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Lu, Q., Stoffella, P. J., & He, Z. L. (2012). Land application of biosolids in the USA: A review. Applied and Environmental Soil Science, 2012(2012), 1-11. https://doi.org/10.1155/2012/201462

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I read the abstract and skimmed the intro & conclusion):
  • This is a peer reviewed academic article (with a DOI number) so it should be reliable.
  • It presents a review of what biosolids are and how they have been regulated and used on land in the United States.
  • The article references US regulations, as well as the policy history of using sewage sludge on land, so it is useful for expanding the explanation of US political decisions/policy around sewage sludge.
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Verlicchi, P., & Zambello, E. (2015). Pharmaceuticals and personal care products in untreated and treated sewage sludge: Occurrence and environmental risk in the case of application on soil — A critical review. The Science of the Total Environment, 538, 750-767. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.08.108

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I read the abstract and skimmed the intro & conclusion):
  • This is a recent peer reviewed academic article (with a DOI number), so it should be reliable.
  • It presents a review of research between 2002 and 2014, focusing on the identification of pharmaceuticals and personal care chemicals in sewage sludge.
  • It considers legislation/regulation of sewage sludge in European countries and in the United States, so it is looking at the political decisions/policy around sewage sludge, as well as scientific/technical information about sewage sludge.
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Newspaper Sources

Perkins, T. (2024). Legal action could end use of toxic sewage sludge on US crops as fertilizer. The Guardian (London).

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I skimmed it):
  • This is a recent newspaper article in The Guardian, a well-known newspaper based in the UK which has a reputation for reliable reporting. The author (Tom Perkins) has written numerous news articles about sewage sludge for The Guardian. This suggests the article is likely to be reliable.
  • The article discusses recent controversies in the use of sewage sludge on agricultural land, US national and state government regulation and responses, and a recent lawsuit by the organization Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility (PEER) about the use of sewage sludge.
  • It focuses on the political conflict around sewage sludge in the US.
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Other Sources

European Commission. Sewage Sludge. https://environment.ec.europa.eu/topics/waste-and-recycling/sewage-sludge_en

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I skimmed it):
  • This page provides an overview of European approaches and legislation about sewage sludge. It provides a simplified overview of the goals and approaches in the EU's Sewage Sludge legislation. While it provides the point of view of the EU government, it could be useful for supplementing other sources about EU legislation and regulation.
  • It is probably most helpful for the other sources it links to, like the actual legislation and other publications about it. I will probably use information from those, and not information from this landing page. But I did want to keep track of it for the moment.
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EPA. Biosolids. https://www.epa.gov/biosolids

• Assessment BEFORE I read through the whole source (I skimmed it):
  • This page provides an overview of US approaches and legislation about sewage sludge (though the EPA calls it "biosolids"). It provides links to basic US government definitions of sewage sludge, as well as legislation. While it provides a point of view of the US government, it could be useful for supplement other sources about US legislation and regulation.
  • It is probably most helpful for the other sources it links to, like actual legislation and other publications about it. I will probably use information those, and not information from this landing page. But I did want to keep track of it for the moment.
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