Adam Balsam gives us a closeup nighttime view of the "digester" tanks at Deer Island, where zillions of bacteria contentedly spend their days munching human sewage.
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Delays, Delays
By The Fox 915
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 9:57am
Now where did I put That Q-36 space modulator?
Theres a decent chance
By Old Groucho
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 10:28am
That your morning glass of O.J. was grown in fertilizer derived from the "waste" in the these tanks.
Mention that next time you see someone who's mid-gulp.
Really?
By adamg
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 11:05am
I mean, I know you can buy Deer Island fertilizer, but they ship it to Florida?
Park Ranger out on Fort Warren told me that
By Old Groucho
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 12:45pm
He had a badge and everything...
He was feeding you predigested material
By anon
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 3:51pm
It all goes here: http://www.baystatefertilizer.com/
No, not really.
By Old Groucho
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 7:46pm
NEFCO Biosolids handles most of the (ahem) $#@! while Bay State fertilizer gets just some of the $#@!.
?
By ElizaLeila
Tue, 04/30/2019 - 10:29am
I didn't think it was OK to put meat-eater derived fertilizer on food growing plantings?
Good thing I don't have a yard to worry about this stuff.
What's
By Luke Warm
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 11:39am
the diff really
Tanks pretty prominent in the 2009 movie The Box
By anon
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 11:45am
They helped recreate a NASA or CIA facility, IIRC. Not a bad lil movie.
Good bacteria are our friends
By anon
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 11:46am
Good bacteria are our friends.
I’ve likened their appearance...
By Eighthman
Mon, 04/29/2019 - 12:46pm
to a Bond villain’s HQ.