I subscribe to various Google alerts, and it seems every week I get links to news articles about a clean-water agency spreading “human waste” on farmland.This needs to stop. The stories are really about land application of biosolids which, despite its source, is something altogether different from “human waste.” A quick Internet search around that offensive term brings links to multiple articles with a variety of characterizations:
Treated human waste
Concentrated human waste
Processed human waste
Human manure
Composted human wasteAnd of course, just plain “human waste.” This is incredibly wrong and unfair. The reporters might as well go ahead and use the four-letter word
