Submitted by Sheldon Rampton on
We first wrote about the PR campaign to market sewage sludge as fertilizer in our 1995 book, Toxic Sludge is Good For Your. Now Florida Power and Light, the operator of a Florida nuclear plant, "appears to have shipped radioactive waste to ordinary landfills, municipal sewage treatment plants and some unknown locations in the 1970's and early 80's," reports the New York Times. "The contaminants were then hauled away with sludge. ... A state document quoted by the plaintiffs says that some contaminated material was transported to a 'cow pasture.' Another state document refers to daily sludge being 'removed by Portolet to unknown site.' The company has concealed the shipments from the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, according to the lawsuits."
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