Ag Wastes Are Major Resource, Chemist Says
- Treating agricultural wastes as- Agricultural Research Service
•a nxajor resource rather than as said that getting nd of agncul
a necessary evil ipay hasten the tiiral wastes posed no problem
recycling of those materials and in the - past because they were
aid in the cleansing of the en- simply dumped on the land or m
vironment, a US. Department the water without any real con
of Agriculture soil chemist said sequence to or concern for the
this week. environment.
Speaking at the Cornell Agri- “Changes in farming practices
culture Waste Management Con- to high density animal and crop
tference in Syracuse, N.Y., Dr. production, the tiemendous in-
Walter R. Heald of USDA’s creases in wastes from the food
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processing industry, the advance
of urbanization which diminish
es the amounts of land and
water once used for disposal, and
people demanding a cleaner en
vironment all have resulted in
agricultural waste becoming a
major problem.” Dr Heald said
“The very large amounts of
animal and crop wastes are still
a pressing problem, but we are
beginning to find that much of
these materials can be eco
nomically used as partial re
placement of inorganic ferti
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of various products and chemi
cals,” he said.
Dr. Heald, a soil chemist at
the ARS Northeast Watershed
Research Center, University
Park, Pa, added that “wastes
ouginating from fruit and vege
table processing, textile mill op
eiations, paper manufacturing,
wood and wood product pioduc
tion, slaughtering and animal
piocessing, and many other in
dustries present major problems
because of the large amounts of
water involved”
“Technology to recycle and
use agricultural wastes,” he con
cluded, “is being rigorously in
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