Media Coverage of the OCA Sludge Dump in San Francisco

Media Coverage of the OCA Toxic Sludge Dump

April 30, 2024 | Source: Organic Consumers Association | by

Television:
Anna Werner, “Concern Over SF Compost Made from Sewage Sludge,”
CBS Channel 5, March 3, 2010. Transcript

Carolyn Tyler, “What SF calls compost, activists call ‘toxic sludge,”
ABC affiliate KGO TV, March 4, 2010.

Photo Galleries:




“Activists Praise Poop, Deliver Dirt to Mayor’s Office,”
SF Appeal, March 4, 2010.

“Stop Toxic Sludge in SF!”
Flickr, March 4, 2010.


Print, Online:
Jill Richardson, “Outrage in San Francisco:
City Gives Away ‘Organic’ Compost

to Residents Containing Toxic Sewage
Sludge,” Alternet, March 4, 2010.

Josh Harkinson, “A Backlash After San Francisco Labels Sewage Sludge Organic,”
Mother Jones magazine, March 4, 2010.  

“Concern Over SF ‘Compost’ Made From Sewage Sludge,”
Wall Street Journal online, March 5, 2010.

Evelyn Nieves, “Claim: San Francisco giving gardeners toxic sludge,”
Washington Post,  March 5, 2010.  (This Associated Press article

appeared in scores of media
outlets including TV, radio and print nationwide; 
here
it is in the Boston Globe
, NPR,  LA Times, New York Times, Christian Science Monitor, SFGate.com, and The Guardian.)

John Upton, “The City’s free compost causes stink,”
SF Examiner, March 5, 2010.