TOXIC SLUDGE IS NOTTTTTTT GOOD FOR YOU

Chapter 8

1. Toxic sludge companies know that public opinion is against them and their campaigns so they employee passive public relations so that the public doesn’t really hear about anything that is happening. This is terrible! These toxic waste companies know what they are doing is bad and they know that the public will think that it is bad so they use passive techniques to introduce sludge farming! Good Lord!

2. Only 1% of sludge is useful to plants and the other 99% should not go where people live and or eat. I can’t believe that something that is entirely made of harmful chemicals is putting spread out over the land where we live. “Land spreading of sewage sludge is not a true ‘disposal’ method” - I agree!

3. If we wanted to really research the bad effects of this sewage stuff, we would not have the proper money to do so. The EPA is giving money to people (millions of dollars) who want to people who want to research the benefits of sludge but not to anyone who wants to research the bad effects. This is not fair to the public. What can we do? The EPA is supposed to stand up for the public, not for the companies.

4. What the hell is with Institutional Constraints and Public Acceptance Barriers to Utilization of Municipal Wastewater and Sludge for Land Reclamation and Biomass Production warning that there are irrational components to the public’s attitude about sludge!!!! I’m irrational? Last time I checked having toxic sludge in clean water is irrational!

5. “sludge that was too contaminated to be placed in a strictly controlled sanitary landfill was promoted as a safe fertilizer and dumped on farmland without anyone having any responsibility.” What is this? Seriously? I cannot believe this!

My question is why is the Environmental protection agency on the same side as the toxic chemical companies? How can we take back our environment from them and put it in the hands of someone who actually cares about it?

Chapter 9

1. PR executives are “mediating” our lives! I don’t want someone to tell me what is good for me with the interests of a company in the mind. I want my interests in mind! I don’t like that PR is mediating what I think.

2. “The best PR ends up looking like news.” This makes me think about to the video when we heard that it wasn’t against the law to produce news that wasn’t true. This is just like that, it is not illegal to lie and say that it is news - which essentially what PR people are doing for the companies that they work for.

3. “Environmental PR seeks to fix these ‘misperceptions’ by convincing the public that ecological crises don’t exist.” Well it’s not working. I’m very aware that environmental crises exist and are happening all over the place! We need to put an end to these, those environmental PR people should probably just step down and let the truth be known.

4. How on earth is McDonald’s one of the highest environmental rated companies!?! I feel like companies I use everyday must be part of this environmental conspiracy - if McDonalds can get an environmental reputation that is good I’m sure other companies can too - probably companies I even use! OH NO!

5. Even worse, companies will advertise the “very qualities they do not have” - does this mean when I buy products from a company that is supposedly caring and environmentally friendly, they are probably not!? Now what am I going to do.

My question is if all the companies I use are just pretending to be environmentally friendly, where am I going to buy from? And, If I start only buying locally to avoid the whole scam, who is to say that the soil is not be fertilized with toxic sludge being masked as fertilizer!

PSA BLOG POST

Torie Sanders and Sarah Schipelitti

Our concept is that not only are cosmetic companies ruining the self esteem of girls across America, they are also ruining the environment. This should stop, females need to take back the environment and their self esteem.