Safely Making Compost From … Poop?
Philadelphians flush 310 tons of what could be money-making compost every year. Will fears of forever chemical contamination prevent us from cashing in?
By Courtney Duchene
Philadelphia Citizen
Sept. 22, 2026
Excerpt:
Hendon can’t pinpoint exactly why the farm, which averages 8,000 to 8,500 pounds of tomatoes, zucchini, okra, eggplants and other produce each year, has had such a bumper crop this year. But he does have a theory: They recently switched to using Bloom, a fertilizer made from biosolids (that means poop) pulled from the city’s waste water. Hendon likes to joke that everything about their produce, even the fertilizer, is “locally sourced.”
A number of cities (Philadelphia included) rely on public-private partnerships to transform human waste into fertilizer. Most of them either sell or give the resulting pellets to large, commercial farms. Washington, D.C.’s water department took the operation in-house, processing (and profiting) off their city’s poop. They also sell the fertilizer they make from it directly to the public — and to community gardens that distribute produce to food deserts around the District.
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Source: https://cityfarmer.info/safely-making-compost-from-poop/
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