American firm eyes biosolids from harbour cleanupBy Shaune MacKinlay ­ The Daily NewsA sewage sludge plant used to sit on a hill overlooking the English villageof Great Stambridge, Essex. First a small plant, then a much larger plantand now, no plant at all.It was touted as a state-of-the art facility that would rid the village ofthe stench of open sewage storage and instead use all that human waste, andmore from surrounding municipalities, to create a fertilizer-like product tosell to area farmers.Now the facility, which used a patented alkaline treatment technology of aToledo, Ohio-based company N-Viro, is just a bad memory in Great Stambridge.³The N-Viro company assured everybody that this product was a reallywonderful fertilizer and all the local farmers would actually be fallingover themselves to buy it barge pole,² said Ron Bailey, a member of the community group that foughtto get rid of the plant.The plant closed in 2001. N-Viro has moved on to new opportunities in NovaScotia, looking to become part of the Halifax Harbour clean-up project

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