Water & Climate

Aerial photo of a flooded landscape.

Flushing Products Other Than Toilet Paper Can Cause Big Problems Down the Line

With SepticSmart Week 2025 coming up the week of September 15-19, there is no time like the present to have a “Flushing 101” review. Whether you live in a rural area and have your own personal onsite wastewater system or your house is connected to a municipal wastewater system, everyone needs to be conscious of what we flush down the toilet. Regardless of what type of wastewater system your home is hooked up to, minimizing solids in our wastewater will improve the overall system performance. 

What’s in Your Manure? Keeping Plastic and Other Junk Out of Your Fields

If you've ever looked out over a freshly fertilized field and noticed a tangle of net wrap or a bit of old plastic poking out of the soil, you're not alone. Recent work on my own farm reminded me of something that might be bugging you too: finding plastic and other junk in livestock manure and worse, seeing it show up in the field.

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