Blood, body parts and bacteria pollute wastewater from meatpacking plants. New rules could help clean it up

from U.S. Right to Know articles · host Natasha Gilbert

Slaughterhouses and meat and poultry processing plants are among the nation’s most polluting industries. The wastewater is contaminated with the most phosphorus and the second highest levels of nitrogen of all industries.

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