Bay Business Journal Vol 17 #3 (June / July 2009)
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Humans do it, animals do it, factories do it. Even cells do it.

Producing waste is just one of those unavoidable evils – right up there with facing our mortality and being accountable to the Internal Revenue Service. But what happens to all the waste we and our fellow biological beings produce, and – no pun intended — where do we go with it?

The Brown County Waste Transformation Initiative (BCWTI) has come up with a possible answer: Process it and sell it around the world as nutrient-rich, pathogen-free fertilizer nuggets.