A Biosolids Drying Technology Helps Clean-Water Facilities Avoid the Cost of Hauling Water

Shelagh Connelly has some advice for biosolids producers: Stop hauling water. Connelly is president of RMI, a company in Holderness, New Hampshire, with 25 years of experience helping wastewater treatment plants, food producers, paper mills and other facilities recycle their residuals that might otherwise go to landfills or incinerators. The company has 25 employees. “We characterize materials that can be recycled and that have beneficial properties, either nutrients or physical characteristics, that make for a good soil material,” Connelly says. We get hired to do all the permitting and regulatory oversight. “Then we have the trucks that pick it up to recycle it for land