http://www.thestandard.com.hk/news_detail.... I found this in "The Standard, China's Business Newspaper". It's a nice human interest piece about a nun who uses shareholder power to get corporations to be ethically responsible and what-not. It's supposed to be a feel-good piece, but it ends on a very sad note, unbeknownst to the Sister, writer, readers, etc. Here's an excerpt of the end of the article:
Last year Heinonen teamed up with community groups to file a shareholder resolution at Synagro Technologies of Houston, the parent company of a sewage plant in the Bronx that had long been the target of some residents' ire for its odor. The proposal, sponsored by the Mercy Investment Program, called on the company to report "at reasonable cost and omitting proprietary information, on environmental, health and safety impacts" of the New York Organic Fertilizer plant.
The response was immediate. Synagro flew in top management for a series of discussions with residents over the past year. Alvin Thomas, Synagro's general counsel who attended the meetings, said Heinonen played a critical role as mediator, supporting residents while also explaining the need to run a business.
Synagro in April was bought out by Carlyle Group, a private equity firm in Washington, and is no longer subject to shareholder resolutions.
Well that'll put a stop to those pesky questions!
Apparently, around the same time the Carlyle Group bought the outfit, the company "volutarily" closed up shop, and now the town is trying to figure out what to do with the "sludge" they left behind.
http://www.newsadvance.com/servlet/Satelli... Here's a town in Pennsylvania that's trying very hard to keep their sewer sludge out
http://www.republicanherald.com/site/news.... It turns out that this "sludge" is called Biosolids, and here's what it is, according to the EPA
Biosolids are the nutrient-rich organic materials resulting from the treatment of sewage sludge (the name for the solid, semisolid or liquid untreated residue generated during the treatment of domestic sewage in a treatment facility). When treated and processed, sewage sludge becomes biosolids which can be safely recycled and applied as fertilizer to sustainably improve and maintain productive soils and stimulate plant growth.
So you see, it's not cow manure being spread around your corn and wheat, it's people manure, now, that's all the rage. You are what you eat. The Carlyle Group is now feeding us our own shit.
